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

The answer Gene Myers posted works using "SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithName" for me - but only in the simulator. On my device (iPod w/OS 2.2.1) it always returns "Host is reachable" even for nonsense addresses like "zzz".

Am I misunderstanding something? Thanks.

Here's my code just in case:

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

    - (IBAction) TestReachability:(id)sender
{
    bool success = false;
    const char *host_name = [ipAddressText.textcStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
    NSString *imageConnectionSuccess = @"Connected.png";
    NSString *imageConnectionFailed = @"NotConnected.png";

    SCNetworkReachabilityRef reachability = SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithName(NULL,
                                                                                host_name);
    SCNetworkReachabilityFlags flags;
    success = SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(reachability, &flags);
    bool isAvailable = success && (flags & kSCNetworkFlagsReachable) && 
        !(flags & kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired);
    if (isAvailable)
    {
        NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat: @"'%s' is reachable, flags: %x", host_name, flags]);
        [imageView setImage: [UIImage imageNamed:imageConnectionSuccess]]; 
    }
    else
    {
        NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat: @"'%s' is not reachable", host_name]);
        [imageView setImage: [UIImage imageNamed:imageConnectionFailed]]; 
    }
}