<Free Ping services that test your servers Availability from the Internet>

Fri Nov 26 19:29:04 UTC 2010

Webmetrics provides such a service (full disclosure I used to work for these guys)...

http://www.webmetrics.com/

Stefan Fouant

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On Nov 26, 2010, at 12:14 PM, "Michael Ruiz" <mruiz at lstfinancial.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> 
> 
>                I had a situation recently that our network went down
> and our Network Monitoring software did not notify us that the network
> was down because the internet connection went down.  We had a problem
> with our carrier where they messed up on our /23(where our Network
> Monitoring software resides), when they did a maintenance.  What
> transpired is our /23 was no longer routing to us.  Is there a free ping
> internet service, or something that we can pay a company that just sends
> a ping to devices?  If they fail to respond, then an email is sent to
> us?  Thank you folks.
> 
> 
> 
> M.A.R
> 
> Senior Network Engineer
> 
> 
> 