[Babel-users] babel-pinger

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Mon Nov 2 06:28:57 UTC 2009


> I looked at the code, in fact, it doesn't do icmp echo requests, it
> does tcp echo requests on port 7.

UDP, not TCP.

> But I'm confused, why does it work for ntp but not for echo and dns?

I've just checked, and it works for me.  Perhaps you have some weird
firewall setup?

> The code is very simple,

Yes, simplicity of implementation is the main reason I avoided ICMP.

                                        Juliusz



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