How to write a simple Ping method in Cocoa/Objective-C

Question

I need to write a simple ping method in Cocoa/Objective-C. It also needs to work on the iPhone.

I found an example that uses icmp, will thi

Answer 1

Let me try this again...this time logging in, and formatting better ;-)

StreamSCNetworkCheckReachabilityByName is deprecated and NOT available for the iPhone.

bool success = false;
const char *host_name = [@"stackoverflow.com" 
                         cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

SCNetworkReachabilityRef reachability = SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithName(NULL,
                                                                        host_name);
SCNetworkReachabilityFlags flags;
success = SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(reachability, &flags);

//prevents memory leak per Carlos Guzman's comment
CFRelease(reachability);

bool isAvailable = success && (flags & kSCNetworkFlagsReachable) && 
                             !(flags & kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired);
if (isAvailable) {
    NSLog(@"Host is reachable: %d", flags);
}else{
    NSLog(@"Host is unreachable");
}

Note: SystemConfiguration.framework is required