You can always call the OS's ping command from within go.  This isn't too 
terrible.  You can see a cross-platform example here: 
https://github.com/jcuga/goping


On Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 2:55:31 AM UTC-4, will wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am a newbie to golang and loving it.
>
> Is there a way to find out if a host is up or down.  In java i would do 
> something like this:
>  int timeOut = 3000; 
>     boolean status = InetAddress.getByName(host).isReachable(timeOut);
>
>
>

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