Thank you, Python! You make things easy. I needed a script that would do something simple—give it a list of servers and ports and it would do a TCP socket connection to see if the service was responding. I want to run this before making firewall changes and then after I’ve done a temporary commit to make sure I didn’t FUBAR something.
My first thought was Perl but it turned out to be more work than I cared for since my not so good to begin with Perl skilz are very rusty. I figured it would be simple in Python and after a few minutes research found I was right. Here’s the script:
import socket def checkhost(host, port): sd = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) try: sd.connect((host, port)) print "OK Connected to %s:%d" % (host, port) except: print "FAIL Could not connect to %s:%d" % (host, port) sd.close()
To run it, just add a function call like:
checkhost(localhost, 53)
which would check the DNS service on localhost.
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