How to ping multiple servers and return IP address and Hostnames using batch script?

Question

So I have to use batch only for this. Basically, the server HOSTNAMES are all listed in a txt file. I used the following code to ping all the servers and di

Answer 1

Parsing pingtest.txt for each HOST name and result with batch is difficult because the name and result are on different lines.

It is much easier to test the result (the returned error code) of each PING command directly instead of redirecting to a file. It is also more efficient to enclose the entire construct in parens and redirect the final output just once.

>result.txt (
  for /f %%i in (testservers.txt) do ping -n 1 %%i >nul && echo %%i UP||echo %%i DOWN
)