From a951875c8ffca05e6ff373fe266cb665fd514012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mxmehl <mail@mehl.mx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 23:08:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] replace ping by nc to circumvent errors when ICMP requests
 are blocked on a remote host

---
 monitor.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/monitor.sh b/monitor.sh
index 009b639..9fddad0 100755
--- a/monitor.sh
+++ b/monitor.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@ function mailsend {
 }
 
 function pingtest {
-    ping -c3 -W3 -q $1 >> /dev/null
+    #ping -c3 -W3 -q $1 >> /dev/null
+    #timeout 5 bash -c 'echo "ping" > /dev/tcp/$1/80'; echo $?
+
+    nc -z -w3 $1 80 > /dev/null
+    
     PSTATUS=$(echo $?)
 }