[feature request] Client-side connectivity check

[Charles Goyard]

Hi,

my company has an heavily firewalled network. A rule that says "host1 can
reach host2 on port 670" somehow vanish (ie human error), and your
service stops working. Most of the time, you'll be aware of it, because
you check at the service level, or the customers phones you. However,
for some applications, such as backups, you'll know some hours, or days
later.

So I come up with a suggestion: be able to check if a specific port is
reachable for the client standpoint. Socket connection can be done via
the bb utility. [picky servers like mysql would be handled differently].

This is kind of easy to do, but the important thing is to have it
standard into hobbit. 

Henrik, does this appeal to you ?

-- 
Charles Goyard - charles.goyard at orange-ftgroup.com - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31
Orange Business Services - online multimedia  // ingénierie