Pinging servers in Python

Question

In Python, is there a way to ping a server through ICMP and return TRUE if the server responds, or FALSE if there is no response?

Answer 1

You can look at this recipe:

• Recipe 409689: icmplib: library for creating and reading ICMP packets

Answer 2

Another pure Python ping implementation that I've used:

http://www.g-loaded.eu/2009/10/30/python-ping/

Answer 3

import subprocess
ping_response = subprocess.Popen(["/bin/ping", "-c1", "-w100", "192.168.0.1"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout.read()