Hello

I want to have a script in perl that is running in windows that test the connection to a ssh server.

If the ssh is up and running I need it to display the version. If ssh timeout I need it say socket timeout after x seconds If the connection is refused. simple display Connection refused.

I have the following bit of code that displays the version but I do not know how to handle the errors (timeout and connection refused

#!C:\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl

use IO::Socket::INET;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(
  PeerHost => $np->opts->host,
  PeerPort => $np->opts->port,
  proto    => 'tcp',
  timeout  => 10,
);
die "$!\n" unless $socket;

$socket->print("\n");
 my $output = join '', $socket->getline();

 print $output;

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also, the timeout is taking more than 10 seconds..so I do not think that is working.

In reply to test version of ssh from windows by mariog

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