Hi,

Popcorn Dave: It doesn't work for any site.

moritz: It works if I run the script from the command line!

naikonta: Websites are accessible from the browser. The second command you suggested - 'perl -MLWP::Simple -le 'print head "http://www.google.com" ? "OK" : "NO"' - returns OK.

varian: Pinging 'www.google.com' is successful. As for doing it from the CGI environment, I have no idea how to go about it! :-( I'll check it out anyway.

Thanks for the responses. Hope someone will be able to suggest a solution.

Jayanth