[AccessD] A2003:Test Voracity of URLS

Hello all
I have an educational client who has a CD full of Education URL's (Zillion's
of 'em)
Occasionally someone has to test to see if the links are broken or not
(Manually <yuk>)
 
I thought this would be a perfect application for Access
Set up a table of URLs and loop through 'em and return TRUE or FALSE
 
So...Is there a way I can type in say...http://somewebsite.someserver.com.au
and return "true" if the site exists or "false" if the site does not exist.
 
I know I can ping http://somewebsite.someserver.com.au
<http://somewebsite.someserver.com.au/>  and get a result
but how would I capture the ping 'reply' from DOS to a table?
 
Or...if any of you already have a method they would like to share them
please let me know
 
Make sense??
 
See ya 
 
Darren