replace ping by nc to circumvent errors when ICMP requests are blocked on a remote host

2015-01-08 23:08:09 +01:00
parent 873499a733
commit a951875c8f
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -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 $?)
 }