Question

I got some questions regarding pinging operations in an application.
I implemented a control which shows if the computer has internet access or not and a control which shows the reachability of a mysql server.
Therefore I currently use TcpClient to check if a connection to both addresses could be established or not.

Question 1):
Are there any issues with pinging google.com? Atm I ping http://www.google.com every 2 seconds.
Is it possible that the google servers won’t respond because of a spamming presumption? (My application has to run about 72hours and it will ping every 2 seconds for 72 hours)

Question 2):
Do you have any useful tips regarding this topic? Is there anything to care about when implementing such things?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

InternetGetConnectedState

Look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384702(v=vs.85).aspx