Re: [SLUG] Network Testing

[Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/17/04 22:43, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins wrote:
>
> > Curiosity question.
> >
> > everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity.
> > what do people do when they need to test a service?
> > telnet IP PORT?
>
>
> or netcat, 
>
> or if you're monitoring hosts and services regularly, nagios.

Even if you're not, the nagios plugins that do the actual checking are 
regular programs that you can execute from the commandline. They're very 
useful for doing application-layer checks. For eg, the check_http plugin 
will connect to port 80 and do a basic request (I don't remember if it's 
a GET / or a HEAD, or something else entirely though).

--
Pete