Простенький скриптик на питоне.

cat ng.sh
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
                                                              
import httplib                                                
                                                                       
netloc = 'wiki2.lst224.b.ls1.ru'                             
path = '/'                                                    
method = "GET"                                                
                                                              
connect = httplib.HTTPConnection(netloc)                      
connect.request(method, path)                                 
response = connect.getresponse()                              
connect.close()                                               
                                                              
print response.status

./ng.sh wiki2.lst224.b.ls1.ru

netloc = str(input(''))