Ahh O.K. jpols is de man to ask!
Your Ping() function also for a NT platform. it does in fact work perfect, and I do not reallt care about the DNS hostname conversion.

Here is the challenege for the day.
Can you, or is it possible to ping the followng IP's in a WIN9X platform:
VPN 1.1.100.229
PUBLIC 216.239.51.100
and just say true or false if it connected to the IP's or not?
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