dennisvink/internet-reachability-checker

A bash script running as a service that reboots the server if the internet isn't eachable for 15 minutes

Internet Reachability Checker

This script sends a ping request to several well-known IP addresses of DNS providers. If none of them are reachable within 15 minutes the script will reboot the server.

Installation

You can run this script in the background on a modern Ubuntu distro with the following steps:

git clone https://github.com/dennisvink/internet-reachability-checker.git
cd internet-reachability-checker
sudo cp check_internet.sh /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/check_internet.sh
sudo cp check_internet.service /etc/systemd/system/ 
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable check_internet.service
sudo systemctl start check_internet.service
sudo systemctl status check_internet.service

Your mileage may vary on other distributions.

License

Donated to the public domain by D.R. Vink