check-host-alive ping substitute...

[Brian May]

Is there a good substitute for ping to see if a host is up or down? my
hosting facility is dropping all ICMP echo requests.  Should I just have a
check that randomly checks services that they box has instead? or does
anyone have a better solution?



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