Jonathon Horsman arctickiwi
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/ connection_test.rb
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February 25, 2016 16:30
Long-running task which periodically checks the internet connection by pinging Google's DNS server and reporting outages
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| require 'net/ping' | |
| HOST = '8.8.4.4' | |
| start = Time.now | |
| puts "#{start} Starting connection check. Pinging #{HOST}" | |
| icmp = Net::Ping::ICMP.new(HOST) | |
| @down = false | |
| total = 0 |