According to the documentation on the web: url The URL to be requested from the web server or cache. Can be either elative (/...) for web servers or absolute (http://...) for caches. I tried to specify the url in like this: url = http://www.google.com wwwcache.mycache.com:80 smokeping returns me with: WARNING: Hostname 'http://www.google.com wwwcache.mycache.com' does currently not resolve to an IP address just by any chance, anybody know how this can be slove. Thanks a lot. Suzy > In message j.wu1@lancaster.ac.uk writes: > > Hello there: > > > > I notice that the echoping can send echo packets through a proxy to the t= > > esting domain. For example: > > > > % echoping -h http://www.google.com mycache.aname.com:80 > > > > where mycache.aname.com:80 is the proxy that the echo packets need to go = > > throgh. anyway, does the smokeping echoping prob does this as well?=20 > > > > nice day > > > > Suzy > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe mailto:smokeping-users-request@list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=3Dunsu= > > bscribe > > Help mailto:smokeping-users-request@list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=3Dhelp > > Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users > > WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi > > -- Unsubscribe mailto:smokeping-users-request@list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=unsubscribe Help mailto:smokeping-users-request@list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=help Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi