Ping a server, return true or false

[FinlayDaG33k]

How can I make it that my Pi pings a server + port, , sees if it's online and returns true or false accordingly???
Please provide me with code rather than just saying what I should do as I am just starting out

[jordanmills]

Powershell:

Test-Connection -ComputerName [host.domain.ext] -Count 1 -Quiet

[asandford]

How can I make it that my Pi pings a server + port, , sees if it's online and returns true or false accordingly???

You can't ping ports, as Ping uses ICMP which doesn't have the notion of ports which are implemented in transport layer protocols like TCP and UDP

Please provide me with code rather than just saying what I should do as I am just starting out

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