How to Ping or check if server of particular IP Address is available/connected in iPhone

Question

I want to Ping or Lookup a particular IP address of server if it is connected or available at that particular time or not in my iPhone application.

I searched a lot over internet but could not find any relevant result for same.

Please help me as I am new to this field.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Apple provides reachability classes you can use the class and

You can download reachability.h and Reachability.m

And use this as

Reachability* reachability = [[Reachability reachabilityWithHostName: @"www.apple.com"] retain]; NetworkStatus netStatus = [reachability currentReachabilityStatus]; 

netStatus gives the reachabilty of the server.