Ping?

[heeljeff]

Our dns at work is usually pretty good, but once every two weeks or so it goes downhill and only resolves a handful of ip's. I decided to make a firefox extension which lets you right click on a link, and choose an option from the context menu to redirect you to a interim php page which pings the host you want to reach and finally directs you to the ip address. Only problem is, when I reach the interim page hosted on Jag, I can't ping (permission denied.) I realize I don't have a dedicated account or anything, but I don't think my rare pings would negatively affect the Jag server. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Vin DSL]

Define 'interim page'...

C:\>ping lenon.com -t

Pinging lenon.com [69.73.147.61] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=105ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=105ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=117ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=147ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52
Reply from 69.73.147.61: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 69.73.147.61:
    Packets: Sent = 77, Received = 77, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 100ms, Maximum =  147ms, Average =  102ms
Control-C
C:\>

My site pings just fine (GigaDeal - $5.99/mo)...

[Brandon]

Hello heeljeff,

If you can provide a traceroute in a ticket when this happens it will help us locate any issues. It may be just a higher load at a peak time, but if that's the case we need to know which server needs the attention.

Vin... it's $5.95 not $5.99.... why are you trying to make us look bad?... I kid of course!

[heeljeff]

OK sorry let me try and clarify...
I want a php page that takes the url as a variable. For example, if I go to www.mysite.com/pinger.php?u=someUrl
I want the page to take someUrl, run a ping on it to get the IP address, then redirect me to http://IPAddress_of_someUrl
Say my dns won't resolve www.news.com. I can right click an html link to www.news.com, select my firefox extension, which takes me to www.mysite.com/pinger.php?u=www.news.com, and seamlessly redirects me to 216.239.115.148

[jason]

Why use ping? PHP has a built in gethostbyname() function that, give a host name will return an ip.

For example

<?php
    echo(gethostbyname($_GET['u']));
?>

--Jason

[heeljeff]

Hmm I didn't even think there might be a php function...I'll try it out...Thanks!

[heeljeff]

Works..thanks!