Can you use hs.ping to ping names

[taffy]

I'd like to ping domain names using hs.ping to simplify some of my scripts and make them more reliable. Is this possible?

[rjh]

Yes, names are fine.
-Rich

[taffy]

How would I ping Yahoo.com. I get this msg when I attempt to run the script below.

3/30/2002 9:31:58 AM~!~Info~!~ Script Error, File: pingname.txt: 380: in line 2


Sub Main
DSL = hs.ping("yahoo.com", 2)

If DSL=0 Then
MsgBox "Success"

Else
MsgBox "failed"
'hs.WriteLog "Ping", "Result is " & r
End If
End Sub

[billjohnson395]

If you do:

Host="www.yahoo.com"
DSL = hs.Ping(Cstr(Host))

You will get an error. If you put Yahoo in /etc/hosts:

Yahoo 66.218.71.89

Then try:

Host="Yahoo"
DSL = hs.Ping(Cstr(Host))

You should have success!

Regards,

[taffy]

host file???

[billjohnson395]

http://ubb.homeseer.com/6/ubb.x?a=tp...392#7272918392

It helped me a lot.

Regards,