[AWS] How to know the server has dead?

[emartel@cic.teleco.ulpgc.es]

Hello

  I'm starting to use AWS. I am just wondering how to know if the 
AWS server has dead before the message "Netscape is unable to 
locate the server ..."? Is there any exception or a function to detect 
it before the message is shown on the client side?


		Best regards,


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Ernestina Martel Jordan
Dpto. de Ingenieria Telematica
Despacho 211. Pabellon C.
Campus Universitario de Tafira, s/n              
35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
Fax:+34 928 451243  Tfno.:+34 928 452876
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