Let me just ask: do people ping anymore, or is that an old-fashioned way to see if one has internet connectivity?

I still use ping for this as it gives more useful diagnostics than many other methods and it doesn't fail due to certificate failures, etc.

For example, I pinged perlmonks and got no answer, and had my terminal tied up.

You need to know how to use the tool of your choice. If you just run something like you have as

    my $trial = system("ping www.google.com");

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how do you expect it ever to finish? Using some of the options restricts the action to a finite process:

$ ping -nc1 perlmonks.org
PING perlmonks.org (209.197.123.153) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 209.197.123.153: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=90.1 ms

--- perlmonks.org ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 90.195/90.195/90.195/0.000 ms
$

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Response received, data displayed, no tying up the terminal forever. Alternatively, see Net::Ping.

In reply to Re^4: using online translation engines with perl (ping) by hippo
in thread using online translation engines with perl by Aldebaran

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