Pinging CS Servers

Question

Hello,

This has been bothering me for awhile, can some one show me how to ping a counter strike server.

I just want to ping the server and see if it is online, thats all.

I found many small snippets online that were using fsock and UDP to do this but none of them actually did the job i wanted it to do.

Most of the ones i found were showing offline servers as online.

I would really really appreciate if some one could provide me with this useful information (code).

Thank you in advance ^_^

Answer 1

Two choices off the top of my head:

fsockopen:

http://www.phptoys.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.41

Net_Ping Pear package:

http://www.codediesel.com/php/ping-a-server-using-php/

Using IP of the CS server.

Answer 2

Get ClanManager and it has modules to check status of CS server.

This is the file with examples talking with CS servers,

http://clanmanager.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clanmanager/ocm/server/counterstrike.inc?revision=1.3&view=markup

Answer 3

You can also do what's known as a TCP ping. Basically, you just connect then disconnect without any communication. If the connection succeeds, you know the server is up, if it fails it's down. When I say server I mean the program you're interested in, not the physical server.