ping simulate thing

Go to http://www.serverobjects.com/products.htm#free
and download AspPing componet. Store the URLs in a database and execute ping component one by one

rather not use components if at all possible...

Well, basically you have to get the output of Ping. If I know correctly Run method of WSH does not return anything. So, you have to think somethign which will return you some value based on a OS commad and thats why I suggested that component

You can run a basic XMLHTTP script on the IP's, if it returns a 200 code then it's good, anything >= 400 is bad.

Looking for code now.

<%
' Start declaring variables.

Dim objXmlHttp
Dim strHTML

' This is the server safe version from MSXML3.
Set objXmlHttp = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

objXmlHttp.open "GET", "http://180.xxx.xxx.xxx", False

' Send it on it's merry way.
objXmlHttp.send

' Get the request status:
theNumber = objXmlHttp.status
theText = objXmlHttp.statusText

If theNumber = "200" And theText = "OK" Then
   Response.Write "The page is good"
Else
   Response.Write "The page returned a code other than 200 and OK"
End if

Set objXmlHttp = Nothing

%>

Also check out this link, it has more details; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/026/001/992/Source%20Files/sample_htm.asp?frame=true

What if it's not a web server, mark?  8)

Why don't you want to use components?

Well he did say "web address's"

Without doing a lot of research on the XML Parser I don't know if it's possible without running a basic batch program.

I know this can be done with a Perl script though using the Net::Ping module...

i mean form "www.name.com"

I didn't read that part, my bad.

mgfranz,
Brilliant, had to add "on error return next" to stop page error when web address dead.
Beautiful, cheers

And just run it through a loop for each address.