I would like to know what the meanings of the default timeout and timeout options mean in relation to Net::Ping.
This may seem like a dumb question but depending on what they are set to the response time of the ping is affected.
If set to 1 I get a reponse of .15 from the following script. If set to 5 I get a response of 4.
Shouldn't the way it work be - if we get a response then continue as soon as we get it?? I also find that this bears no relation to the ms response I get from the command line ping utility. Is this because Net::Ping is timing the perl code and perl is slower than the os binary? 
sub Ping{
    my ($self,$host) = @_;  
    my $p = Net::Ping->new("external",1,80);
    $p->hires();
    print "HOST->".$host."\n";
    my ($ret, $dur, $ip)  = $p->ping($host);
    print "RET->".$ret."\n";
    print "DUR->".$dur."\n";
    print "IP->".$ip."\n";
    if (defined($ret)){
        return $ret;
    } else {
        return undef;
    }
}

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