As Sean can attest to, my Irex (binkd) can occasionally just shut down.
No idea why or anything, it just ends (no log entries either). And
there are times when I might not turn on the monitor for the BBS for
days, maybe all week. Then Sean send me an email and slams his
IronFist(tm) to let me know my mailer is down (just joking). 

So, I did some surfing and playing around. Found a python script that
checks any IP4 address and port to see if it is open and connectable.
If not, it can send an email. So I set that up and had to do some hacks
to it, since it was written for Python v2 and unix based systems. But I
got it working (on windows). So not I will be notified when it goes
down. Sean can rest the IronFist and save it for the real bad guys. 

Not bad for a guy that doesn't know shit about python, but should. 

Kev

 
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