Re: Check FTP server status

[Loyd Goodbar <loyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do the "log in" method, as well as ping the servers (if allowed on that
particular server).

>From the AS/400, one thing I like to do is ping localhost to see if TCP/IP is
running, before wasting time trying to ping other systems. One problem with
the "log in" method is the inability to determine whether the network
connection or the FTP server is down. (You could ping a known server, such as
Yahoo, or an internal server, which might narrow down network problems.)

I wish there were a standard way (other than port scanning) to determine if a
service is listening on a particular port - ping a port. Hopefully there is
and I just don't know about it.

Loyd

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 05:43:16 -0500 , Tucker Gerry <Gerry.Tucker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I use that API all the time but and I guess that is one way.  I suppose
>another is to have a recurring job to attempt log in and out of the server,
>and check the return messages.

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