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

I had this same problem, and ended up writing a simple wrapper around SimplePing to achieve this, wrote a blog about it and there's some code on github, hopefully will help someone here:

http://splinter.com.au/how-to-ping-a-server-in-objective-c-iphone