Webhosts racing script? - and the winner is....
Hi,
a want to measure the ping time and a traceroute to see howmany hop's are connected.
I want to use it on my host search engine site (http://www.hostfinder.net) maybe it can help some of the people and its a nice feature I don't have and some other host search engine site have.
Marcel.
http://www.hostfinder.net
hostfinder posted this at 01:08 — 14th July 1999.
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Joined: Jun 1999
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
anti posted this at 03:48 — 14th July 1999.
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Joined: Jan 1999
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
anti posted this at 20:59 — 14th July 1999.
They have: 453 posts
Joined: Jan 1999
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
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