Ping a list of machines and write the results to two files. machines that are alive and machines that don't respond

PingMachines.ps1

$machines = get-content("c:\temp\machines.txt")

foreach ($machine in $machines) {

    #check for DNS resolution
     
    $PingStatus = Gwmi Win32_PingStatus -Filter "Address = '$machine'" | Select-Object StatusCode

    if ($PingStatus.StatusCode -ne 0) {
    
        $machine | out-file "c:\temp\machinesnotthere.txt" -enc ASCII -append
        write-host "couldn't ping $machine"
    }
    else {
        $machine | out-file "c:\temp\machinesthere.txt" -enc ASCII -append
        write-host "$machine responded"
    }
 


}