.NET 3.5 Console Application: Ping a Server

Question

Hello all!
Iam a very newbie new person here :)
I want to ping a server, (checking availability) from the console application. If it answers then the program continues, if not, displays error message. Can anybody tell me how to do this?

SO again:

1.) The program asks for server address. (e.g.: eu.logon.com)

2.) Then its pings it.

3.) And if the server answers the the program continues, if its doesnt, then error message.

Source code would be the best, thanks!

Rajeswari nathan · Answer

See the bellow code it will use to ping the server using System; using System.Net.NetworkInformation; class MainClass { public static void Main ( string [] args ) { using ( Ping ping = new Ping ()) { Console.WriteLine ( Pinging: ) ; foreach ( string comp in args ) { try { Console.Write (  {0}...  comp ) ; PingReply reply = ping.Send ( comp 100 ) ; if ( reply.Status == IPStatus.Success ) { Console.WriteLine ( Success - IP Address:{0}  reply.Address reply.RoundtripTime ) ; } else { Console.WriteLine ( reply.Status ) ; } } catch ( Exception ex ) { Console.WriteLine ( Error ({0})  ex.InnerException.Message ) ; } } } } }

Christopher Leeiy · Answer

Thank you for answer :) Its good just iam too noob to do it :S Here is my code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; namespace Ping2 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { string adress; Console.WriteLine(Enter server adress:); adress = Console.ReadLine(); // PING Adress Here // If answers then the program continue... // If not error message and exit. } } } User input the adress. Porgram pings and if its answers then the program continues if not its exits. This is all I would like to do. I dont have to display any results its just a check.