I need to do a network ping in an iPhone app, but NSHost is an unsupported framework for iPhone OS. Does anybody know of other tools or techniques to achive similar functionality?
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1Some answers here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/798454/how-to-write-a-simple-ping-method-in-cocoa-objective-c – Richard Stelling Jul 15 '09 at 19:11
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Search for Reachability. Have a loot at e.g. this SO question. With this, you can test if a host can be reached.
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2In this context the definition of reachable is that a packet can be sent out to a specific host. Reachability does not check if that packet ever makes it to the server. A ping would however send out the packet to the server, and wait for the server to return a packet. Reachability and Ping are therefore not interchangeable. – Tim Bodeit Jun 29 '14 at 18:34