Jlo,

I did saw Jurals last reply before mine (not yours)

Bryce,

You don't step on my toes brother, you rip my heart out [Big Grin]
No, seriously, the KISS principle is still valid and for just checking the reply it fits perfectly, (It's just the way I did the check in my ping() UDF [Roll Eyes] ) ...
The only reason why I posted mine (long time ago) as is, was only the enhancement of exctracting IP from name which I still use to prepare and maintaining my Servers input ini-file for admin scripts [Wink]
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