Internet is up verification

[George Toft]

While I was having issues with Qwest, I set up a script on my firewall 
to ping the upstream router for 60 seconds and it would save the results 
to a text file.  Then it would repeat.  The text file gave me very good 
ammunition when Qwest would tell me there were no problems as I had 
minute-by-minute connectivity results.

Right now, I have a machine that pulls a specific page (sitewatch.txt) 
from my web server once each minute.  If it fails, I get notified. 
Needless to say, if the failure is my ISP, I don't get notified 
immediately :) but I can always check the logs.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760




Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:30:09PM -0700, Shawn Badger wrote:
> 
>>I was wondering if anybody knows of website that will allow you to ping
>>and do wgets every couple seconds to verify your Internet connectivity?
>>I have thought about just polling some of my favorite sites every couple
>>seconds, but then I thought, they may not appreciate that kind of
>>traffic and may block my request. Does anybody know if say google or /.
>>blocks IP's for this reason and if there is a service out there that
>>specifically allows for this kind of test?
> 
> 
> You could probably hit a high bandwidth site/service like Google and
> they wouldn't even notice. But I wonder what you're up to, because it
> seems excessive for not having something specific that you need to ping.
> 
> Trying to gather availability evidence against Cox or Qwest? ;)
>