Pinging App Server before Remoting.

ward0093 posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007

I have successfully deployed our Remoting Application Server and in most cases it works flawlessly.  I am now bringing on a client that has there network behind another larger company network.

In my system before I perform a Remote Access of a business object.  I "Ping" the App Server to make sure it is there.  This works for most network work setups but now, on this clients computer, the ping times out.  Even if I use START -> RUN -> CMD and type in "Ping www.google.com", that still times out.  But I can serf to google.com via IE no problem.

My question is this.  What would happen if I remove the "Ping" check in my application and just try to remote the BO?  If I can not ping the address will I still be able to remote the BO since I am using IIS and HTTP protocal?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

ward0093

ajj3085 replied on Friday, December 07, 2007

It sounds like they are blocking pings for some reason, but not http traffic.  I would think you're better off not pinging anyway and just trying to connect.  Pings have very limited utility, and not when your application is running. 

If your application fails to connect to the app server for some reason, you'll still get an exception.  At that point you can try various methods to determine if the server is reachable.