Telnet service is not running and not in my hands to start it. Its a Virtual Machine basically.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@nibrahim.net.in>wrote: > Nikunj Badjatya <nikunjbadja...@gmail.com> writes: > > > [...] > > > > Now, > > I was expecting the "status" in above snippet to hold '0' only in case of > > no. 3) > > But even when we have case 1), 'status' is holding '0'. > > i.e. The exit status of ping is 0, even when destination host is > > unreachable.! > > > > How do I make my snippet to work as desired. i.e even if destination host > > is unreachable, 'status' should hold '1' and hold '0' only when it gets > > reply from that ip address.?? > > You could grep the output of ping to check what happened but this is a > clumsy way of doing this. Isn't there some service running on the remote > machine that you can telnet to to ascertain whether it is up or not > rather than spawning ping an checking its output status? > > [...] > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > > All generalisations are dangerous, including this one. > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
