How many times have you connected to a server via Remote Desktop to install some components?
How many have you rebooted a remote server and sat around waiting for it to go up?
How many times have you opened a command prompt and ran ping -t until the server started responding?

Well, your days of manual pinging have come to an end!
The PingNotifier comes to the rescue!

With one small click, you will be able to start pinging a server, and receive a systray notification when the ping is successful, or if an error occurs:

I've attached the full source to this blog post.

(Disclaimer: Code is neither secret nor safe. Does not check validity. Does not care about network load. Does not floss regularly. Does not do tracerouting, change TTLs to try alternate packets sizes. Does not care about the environment. Do not trust the code. Do not trust the code.)

6 Comments

• Kong1000 said Tuesday, July 4, 2006 4:48:53 PM

  dx260 rocks da build !!

• Joe Olsen said Wednesday, July 5, 2006 11:31:52 PM

  Awesome tool. I am doing a little revamping to add a coupel more features. Put a setup file and icon team together though. Source is loacted at www.joeolsen.com/tools/pingnotifier.zip. Thanks. JJO

• luispic said Friday, July 14, 2006 4:17:27 PM

  What a cool idea!!! i've been looking for something like that since forever ehehe, although i'm not a programmer... any chance you might post a build version of it? or maybe someone can tell me how to build it? TNX!!

• weblogs.asp.net said Monday, March 28, 2011 1:43:08 AM

  Ping Notifier_2100_.. Awesome :)

• weblogs.asp.net said Monday, April 25, 2011 1:50:42 PM

  Ping Notifier_2100_.. Tiptop :)

• weblogs.asp.net said Wednesday, June 8, 2011 1:11:23 PM

  Ping Notifier_2100_.. Amazing :)