See if connection is ready, or dead

[moomoo-dev]

Hello,

I'm trying to see if the Memcache server is ready for connections, or alive. The reason I'm trying to do this is to make sure that the Memcache server is up when I start my server. Currently I get Connection Refused, but I don't see how I could Catch this error and fall back on just using the Database.

Can anybody point me to the right direction?

Thanks.