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https://github.com/marcus67/proxy_ping
Simple tool to ping servers behind a firewall that will not let ICMP packages through.
https://github.com/marcus67/proxy_ping
debian firewall ping python3 remote service
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Simple tool to ping servers behind a firewall that will not let ICMP packages through.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/marcus67/proxy_ping
- Owner: marcus67
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2021-02-06T22:59:21.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-07-10T08:47:47.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-11T13:37:11.818Z (25 days ago)
- Topics: debian, firewall, ping, python3, remote, service
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 404 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 6
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGES.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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README
# Ping Through Proxy Utility `ProxyPing`
## Overview
The utility `ProxyPing` is a simple tool to ping servers behind a firewall that will not let ICMP packages
through. It provides a HTTP server answering to ping requests and returning the ping delay as a HTTP text result. The
tool will have to be deployed on a server behind the firewall that can be reached by a configurable TCP
connection (defaulting to port TCP 6666).
Suppose the tool is deployed on server `my.proxy.behind.wall` and the server to be pinged is called `some.other.server`
the required HTTP query will have to look like this:
http://my.proxy.behind.wall/api/ping?host=some.other.server
## Change History
See [here](CHANGES.md)
## GitHub Status
## SourceForge Download Status
## Continuous Integration Status Overview
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Note: The vulnerability status is derived from the Python PIP packages found in `requirements.txt`.
## Features
## Tested Distributions
So far, `ProxyPing` has only been released as a Debian package. For other non-Debian based distributions
there is some basic support using a generic installation script.
| Distribution | Version | Architecture | Comments | Most Recent Test |
| ------------ | ------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| Debian | debian/sid | amd64 | | 2021-02-13 |
## Quick Install (Debian Package)
This guide will take you through the steps required to install, configure, and run the `ProxyPing` application
on your system.
### Download the Software
The application is available as a Debian package
from the [`release`](https://sourceforge.net/projects/proxy-ping/files/release/) directory at SourceForge.
The latest build is available from the [`main`](https://sourceforge.net/projects/proxy-ping/files/main/)
directory. Install it as you would install any other Debian package with
dpkg -i PACKAGE.deb
apt-get install -f
Note that the second command is required to install missing dependencies since `dpkg` does not run a dependency check.
Instead, it will return with an error which will then be "fixed" by `apt-get`.
After installation use
systemctl start proxy-ping
to start the application right away. The application will
successfully start up provided that the default port 6666 is available on the host.
### Configuring the Application (Mostly Optional)
The application is configured using the file [`/etc/proxy-ping.config`](etc/proxy-ping.template.config).
The default values should work for most contexts. This will bring up the server on port 6666.
## Credits
* Thanks to all the people maintaining the wonderful script language [Python](https://www.python.org/)
and the libraries on [PyPi](https://pypi.org/).