ping ip's / hostname in app engine

Question

I'm trying to ping an ip address and telnet to some port from an app hosted on app engine. I've tried using http://svn.pylucid.net/pylucid/CodeSnippets/ping.py but for some reason it failing

Thanks

Answer 1

Note that ICMP messages can only be sent from processes running as root.

Your app on GAE is not running as root. Why bother pinging when you want to telnet anyway?

Answer 2

GAE does not support ICMP nor Telnet.

For communication with outside hosts at the moment only mail/xmpp/http(s) work through the specific API calls.