Greetings all, I find that my Net::Ping (Which is reported to be the (latest release) just doesn't seem to work. There was a thread about this a while back, but there was no real solution - so I'm hoping to further the line;
I run Linux 2.2.6 (Slackware) w/5.005_03.

The examples state that you can just pass it a hostname (the Perl Cookbook uses "kingkong.com") which perl responds with:
Bad arg length for Socket::unpack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 16 at /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/Socket.pm line 295.

I figure that its expected a packed address, but when I feed it something like (And yes, i'm running as root):

$p = Net::Ping->new('icmp');
print "She's workin" if $p->ping(inet_aton("addr.com"));
$p->close();

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The script takes 1/4 of a second to complete, making me very suspicious as to whether anything is happened at all! Increasing the timeout does nothing, and the command still runs for 1/4 of a second.
Anyone faced and overcome this?
JP

In reply to Net::Ping just don't werk by JPaul

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