We monitoring the default Gateway address used in our internet router. In other words, its your next upstream address (we ususally have T1s or T3s, but cable and DSL both have an upstream IP address). This is better than looking at servers if you want to know baseline Internet Connectivity of your provider.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/22/04 02:05PM >>> I have a number of services I'm monitoring that are dependent on our internet connection and I'm wondering what others are doing to establish in a map their internet connection is up. I tried monitoring our ISP's DNS servers and those seem to be really unstable for some reason when I monitor them only using the DNS service. (UDP port 53?) In any case, can anyone share a recommended strategy for monitoring internet connectivity? I'm getting to the point where we get an onslaught of down messages when our pipe goes down... yuck.. thanks. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
