Since this box is running bind, I am cacheing the name locally. I don't
want to hard-code the number since this site does switch to its backup
ISP once in a while...
I should also say that this is testing my backup line, not the primary.
That's why I need to ping. If it goes down, I don't want to find out
only when the primary goes down. :-(
Thanx, though!
-Michael
>>> jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/11/03 02:18AM >>>
Michael Weber wrote:
>I have a simple script running on my firewall that simply sends a
>single ping packet to a web site I trust every minute. If the ping
>fails, I assume my DSL line went down... again.
>
>
[snip]
>LOG_FILE=/var/log/ping_log
>TARGET_IP="www.kcpt.org"
>
># echo log to $LOG_FILE
>
>if ping -c 1 $TARGET_IP >> /dev/null { If you put >> $LOG_FILE here
>you can see the no route stuff }
>
>
If your DSL connection is down then the hostname won't resolve either
... you need a network connection to look up www.kcpt.org. Your best
bet is to replace the hostname with 208.14.187.10
jch
>
>
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