Go package for checking general network health

The purpose of this package is to provide a simple yes/no check as to whether the general internet is directly accessible from the calling system.

This could be used as a pre- or post-check when trying to connect to a different system (helping to determine that system is down, or if it is a local networking problem).

See also: http://bjdean.id.au/wiki/Programming_Notes/GoLang

A simple wrapper program that uses this package can be found here: https://github.com/bjdean/can_access_internet

import (
	"github.com/bjdean/gonetcheck"
	"time"
)

canAccessInternet, err := gonetcheck.CheckInternetAccess(
	time.Duration(10 * time.Second),
	string[]{ "http://example.com", "http://example.net", "http://example.org/" },
	string[]{ "example.org:80", "example.net:443", "example.org:22" } )

if canAccessInternet {
	// Do something requiring internet access
}

Copyright 2013 Bradley Dean

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http:www.gnu.org/licenses/.