I'm a little over my head here. We have a SOHO setup, with a static IP from our cable company. Have a domain name registered to this IP. I have a box set-up with Slackware 8.1 that is doing NAT/firewall/webserving for the business.
I want to see if I can develop some way to check the entire chain of providers to make sure my web pages are being served up. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was told that typing in
http://www.mydomain.com doesn't really check all of the providers, that it just serves up
http://192.168.1.7 (my webservers local address). Even if this is wrong, I still want to automate this.
I have tried using one of those free telnet login services, then using their copy of lynx and going to the website, but that's a hassle and I want to automate this to check it, say, every hour, to make sure it's working. Is there a way to make sure that the registrar is forwarding to the IP, that the cable-internet is working, and that my firewall has not had a hiccup, and that the apache is actually serving the pages to the internet? Some script or something?
TIA
