Win,

Sorry, I was talking from a webservice. What you want to do is a simple ping
to an external server. And for that I know only a commandline solution which
you cannot use.

Can you maybe do something with this one. It is a sample how to get the page
from Google, however what you get is of course not important.

Using this class you can as well get server information. However this is a
very nice short sample.

\\\
Module main
   Public Sub main()
       Dim myReg As Net.HttpWebRequest = _
DirectCast(Net.WebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com"), _
Net.HttpWebRequest)
       Dim myResp As Net.HttpWebResponse = _
       DirectCast(myReg.GetResponse(), Net.HttpWebResponse)
       Dim myStream As IO.Stream = myResp.GetResponseStream()
       Dim myreader As New IO.StreamReader(myStream)
       Dim mystring As String = myreader.ReadToEnd()
       myResp.Close()
   End Sub
End Module
///

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor