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Agreed, any this is the point that I was trying to make. With that said, whom should I open a bug report with? I have never filed a bug report

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Re^5: Net::Ping 2.63 Failing
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 17, 2018 at 06:04 UTC
    With that said, whom should I open a bug report with?

    Net::Ping is a part of perl core, so you can send your bug report as an email to perlbug@perl.org .
    AFTERTHOUGHT: I just noticed that perl core currently (perl-5.27.7) has Net-Ping-2.62 - so you probably should check and see what its behaviour is prior to reporting.
    UPDATE: I finally got around to checking the behaviour with Net-Ping-2.62, and it does have the same buggy behaviour as you reported for 2.63.
    Most people would file that email by running the perlbug command - as that ensures that all relevant information about your system and perl itself are included in your report

    Note that there are 2 ways that this bug could be fixed:
    1) Restore the previous behaviour of ping();
    2) Alter the documentation of ping() to match the current behaviour.
    So it's not guaranteed that the behaviour of ping() will be reverted to its earlier form.
    However, back-compatibility considerations should provide an incentive to go with 1)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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