anti — Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:59:00 +0000

Hi,

do you have telnet-access to your host ?
Just type "type traceroute" and write down the whole path.
Then write a small perl-script that calls it via open(TRACE,"/whereever/traceroute $target);
and parse the output.
Maybe it would be a good idea to check $target before using it

If there isn't traceroute on your server you'll have to build your own ICMP-packets which could get very hard in perl.

ciao
Anti

anti — Wed, 14 Jul 1999 03:48:00 +0000

Hi,

what do you want exectly ?

The speed at which the host answers or the speed at which it can send data to you ?

In general I would say this data would be pretty useless unless you have a server directly on the backbone with a dedicated connection.

You could measure:
- the "ping"-time
- the answer-time
- the transfer-rate
but only to your host, which wouldn't have any objective data in it.

What do you ant to do with the data?

ciao
Anti

hostfinder — Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:08:00 +0000

Hi,

I'm looking for a script for my site, a script that can test 2 webhosts to check which one is the fastest, in ASP or PERL.

Thanks.
Marcel Vogel
http://www.hostfinder.net