Pinger! – The Mass Host Ping Tool
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Pinger! is a tiny ping utility (13KB) that is used to quickly ping a large list of hosts and save the resulting successful and failure host lists into a text file.
Why?
When developing scripts and applications that will touch a large number of hosts, if many of those hosts are offline or no longer exist, the timeouts involved with this can slow down execution time and dramatically slow down your script or application.
In my case, I was presented with a list of 600+ servers that needed to have the exact same script run against them, a successful server took only several milliseconds to finish, a failed host took around 4 seconds to time out, clearly I needed to find out which servers were alive and which weren’t and further again I needed to list the successful servers in a clean text file, 1 host per line, so I could import this into my application as an array.
And hence Pinger! was born 
Usage
Very simple, Pinger.exe when run looks for hosts.txt in the same directory. Simply enter in your list of host names in this text file, one per line and Pinger! will run over them 1 by 1 and output the results.
Simply extract the .zip containing Pinger.exe and hosts.txt to the same directory and open Pinger.exe.
Output
2 files are outputted. these are:
- success.txt – The list of successfully pinged hosts, in per line format
- failure.txt – The list of hosts that failed to ping, in line by line format.
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15 Responses to “Pinger! – The Mass Host Ping Tool”
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jackoblack on October 28th, 2010
Thanks I need a pinger tool !
Cisa Certification on October 31st, 2010
Just out of curiosity, what did you use to write this program? VBS, Batch?
Allen George on November 4th, 2010
Just a question, would you be willing to provide the source code for this, I’ve looked at writing something like this in C# and it looks like it would be a fairly large undertaking. I would like to make a few modifications to this. Please feel free to contact me if you are willing.
Thanks,
Allen
Cheyne on November 8th, 2010
Sorry about the late reply,
This app was written in C# .Net 3.5.
Mass Ping on February 20th, 2011
Very nice handy tool … i was looking for that from long … thanks cheyne for good work … carry on
RiCKY on February 26th, 2011
Very useful tool!
Thanks a lot…
Reale Perizie on March 25th, 2011
I agree completely with this article…
WorldofAnime on May 25th, 2011
Thanks for this tool.
It really helps with my site
rich on May 29th, 2011
Good tool thanks for sharing..
badji on June 5th, 2011
nice tool. i ‘ll try it
win back ex husband on August 24th, 2011
I’ve recently started a site, the info you offer on this website has helped me greatly. Thank you for all of your time & work.
Document Search Engine on November 12th, 2011
Thanks you for such a nice and helpful post,I’ll give it a try!
Document Search Engine on November 13th, 2011
Good for pinging “mass url”
mass ping on December 13th, 2011
its nice exellent tool… but the download site is not working not sure if its me only …
Remote Monitor on January 9th, 2012
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