I use a web utility from www.netwhistle.com and you can do different tests.
 The tests are done remotely
 so you can see if your jetstream is alive or not to the world.
 Can setup different types of notifications too.
 
 Chris Foster
 
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: ChrisHellberg <chellberg@ecnetwork.co.nz>
 To: <adsl@unixathome.org>
 Sent: Wednesday, 11 October 2000 09:11
 Subject: Redundancy and the like
 
 
> This is along the similar lines of the "you scratch my back and I'll
> scratch your's" secondary dns hosting discussion that was going a while
> back.
>
> Since, I don't work on the same site as my Jetstream connection, and I'm
> sure many here don't, I can't often easily test my net connection to see
> if it's up or not, due to firewall probs, etc. I've also been having a
> few connection problems with the *new* Nokia Mw1122, so...
>
> I was thinking that we could get a simple shell script for those who run
> *nix to ping an address, see if it's up every so often, and if there's
> no ping reply, an email sent out to an address saying there's a problem.
>
> Any takers?
>
> Chris Hellberg
>
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