Ping a particular host using objective c

Ping a host and check for reachability

So heres the code (Make sure you add the SystemConfiguration Framework in your project before you begin with this)

- (BOOL)pinghosttoCheckNetworkStatus

{

    bool success = false;

    const char *host_name = [@"itunesconnect.apple.com"

                             cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

    

    SCNetworkReachabilityRef reachability = SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithName(NULL,host_name);

    SCNetworkReachabilityFlags flags;

    success = SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(reachability, &flags);

    bool isAvailable = success && (flags & kSCNetworkFlagsReachable) &&

    !(flags & kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired);

    if (isAvailable)

    {

        return YES;

    }else{

        return NO;

    }

}

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