Phocean.net / Computer Security » Hostcheck http://www.phocean.net "A defense that hedgehogs possess is the ability to roll into a tight ball, causing all of the spines to point outwards." -- Wikipedia Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:02:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hostcheck http://www.phocean.net/2010/01/15/hostcheck.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hostcheck http://www.phocean.net/2010/01/15/hostcheck.html#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:44:21 +0000 phocean http://www.phocean.net/?p=696 I continue to publish some my coding.

Hostcheck is a simple Perl script that can be useful to quickly check if a list of host is up.
It just read a host file and check if the host are available doing a ping test or trying to open a socket.

Nothing great, but it may help to quickly check that most of things are right after a network change, for instance.
Because we want to test many hosts, and not to scan, the pace is fast so it may not be 100% reliable. The idea is to see roughly is the connectivity is correct or if your whole LAN is down.
It uses colors and is easy to read, so it might be good to show to your manager ! :)

I hope it will be useful. More info and download link are there.

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