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need alternative check for when icmp (ping) is blocked by firewall #15

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y opened this issue May 27, 2015 · 0 comments
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need alternative check for when icmp (ping) is blocked by firewall #15

y opened this issue May 27, 2015 · 0 comments

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y commented May 27, 2015

I've encountered many networks where icmp packets (from ping) are blocked by a firewall. It would help if there was a fallback mechanism, like opening an http/s connection to the host without actually making a request, i.e. telnet www.google.com 80.
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