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Avner Kashtan's Frustrations and Exultations

Ping Notifier!

How many times have you connected to a server via Remote Desktop to install some components?
How many have you rebooted a remote server and sat around waiting for it to go up?
How many times have you opened a command prompt and ran ping -t until the server started responding?

Well, your days of manual pinging have come to an end!
The PingNotifier comes to the rescue!

With one small click, you will be able to start pinging a server, and receive a systray notification when the ping is successful, or if an error occurs:

I've attached the full source to this blog post.

(Disclaimer: Code is neither secret nor safe. Does not check validity. Does not care about network load. Does not floss regularly. Does not do tracerouting, change TTLs to try alternate packets sizes. Does not care about the environment. Do not trust the code. Do not trust the code.)

Attachment: PingNotifier.zip
Posted: Jul 03 2006, 09:54 AM by AvnerK | with 8 comment(s)
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Comments

Kong1000 said:

dx260 rocks da build !!

# July 4, 2006 12:48 PM

Joe Olsen said:

Awesome tool.  I am doing a little revamping to add a coupel more features.  Put a setup file and icon team together though.  Source is loacted at www.joeolsen.com/tools/pingnotifier.zip.

Thanks.

JJO

# July 5, 2006 7:31 PM

Nathan said:

Interesting tool. Like Joe, I too made a few modifications. Sorry, Joe, if I had known you were messing with it too then I would have waited and made the changes to your version. Hopefully they can be merged OK.

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/nathanb/src/PingNotifier.zip

Nathan

# July 6, 2006 6:51 PM

luispic said:

What a cool idea!!! i've been looking for something like that since forever ehehe, although i'm not a programmer... any chance you might post a build version of it? or maybe someone can tell me how to build it? TNX!!

# July 14, 2006 12:17 PM

All Articles ! said:

Next year the conference is in Vancouver, and I\'m responsible for publicity. I\'d love to hear your ideas for how we can reach out to more of those interested in aspects. Some of this year\'s highlights follow as additional blog entries.

# April 24, 2008 10:47 AM

weblogs.asp.net said:

Ping Notifier_2100_.. Awesome :)

# March 27, 2011 9:43 PM

weblogs.asp.net said:

Ping Notifier_2100_.. Tiptop :)

# April 25, 2011 9:50 AM

weblogs.asp.net said:

Ping Notifier_2100_.. Amazing :)

# June 8, 2011 9:11 AM
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