Java InetAddress Ping ping(InetAddress host)

Description

Method taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2448666/how-to-do-a-true-java-ping-from-windows

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
host	a parameter

Declaration

public static boolean ping(InetAddress host) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.net.InetAddress;

public class Main {
    private static final String SYSTEM_PROPERTY_OS_NAME = "os.name";
    private static final String OS_NAME_WINDOWS = "windows";
    private static final String WINDOWS_PING_CMD = "ping -n 1 ";
    private static final String UNIX_PING_CMD = "ping -c 1 ";

    /**/*  ww  w  . j a  v a2s .c o m*/
     * 
     * Method taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2448666/how-to-do-a-true-java-ping-from-windows
     * 
     * @param host
     * @return
     */
    public static boolean ping(InetAddress host) {
        try {
            String cmd = "";
            if (System.getProperty(SYSTEM_PROPERTY_OS_NAME).toLowerCase().startsWith(OS_NAME_WINDOWS)) {
                // For Windows
                cmd = WINDOWS_PING_CMD + host.getHostAddress();
            } else {
                // For Linux and OSX
                cmd = UNIX_PING_CMD + host.getHostAddress();
            }

            Process myProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
            myProcess.waitFor();

            if (myProcess.exitValue() == 0) {

                return true;
            } else {

                return false;
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
            return false;
        }
    }
}

Related

1. ping(final InetAddress address)
2. ping(InetAddress addr, NetworkInterface ni)
3. ping(InetAddress target)
4. pingFromLocalAddress(InetAddress localAddr)
5. pingUsingInetAddress()
6. pingWindows(InetAddress address, long timeout)