Greetings,

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[email protected]> wrote:
> This line is quite good. What is tcp[13] == 2? Ok, you are checking for
> SYN flag.
>
> But you want to look at outgoing connection requests which netstat
> may not help you out with.

I don't have knowledge of network and netstat would not help me that
is why I used the first and foremost of the connection establishment
packet.

Pardon my ignorance.


>
> So firefox might have a timeout to identify connection outage.

sure it has. but how and where do I detect/recognise it from within a script?


>
> I want to know what you really mean by "tracking unavailability from a
> user perspective".
>

through a script / inotify / auditd

> The browser tab itself clearly says that the site is down. What more
> do you need?
>

Indeed, if a human is sitting in front of it. But a human can Lie and
in IMHO Audit/SLA hard data is generally relied on which can only be
captured, again imho, by script / inotify / auditd or some such
mechanism.

> In fact there are several tcp* utilities in UNIX for looking at outgoing
> TCP connection requests. You can look at them perhaps.
>

Could you kindly help me with pointers?

Thanks for your kind reply

Regards,

Rajagopal
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