On Mon, May 1, 2006 4:38 pm, Mark London wrote: > A user at our site has complained that he when he tries to create a > script (cgi or php) that uses PING, if the PING hits a node that doesn't > respond (i.e. the node has a firewall), the PING never times out and the > script hangs. From the command line, PING will timeout. Would anyone > have any insight into this problem, and have a solution? Thanks. - Mark What operating system? ping /? and look for "number of packets to send". On a *Doze box, it's -n. On some *Nix boxes, it's -c. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx