Ok, I've waited several hours for somebody else to comment first. But, alas, no takers.

I'm sure it was perfectly obvious to you why you've created a module to do whatever it is this does, but, it would have been nice to hear your story. And even now that I've spent the time to read through it and attempt to figure out what it does, I'm still clueless as to what "mship" means or stands for.

For others who don't want to spend time reading the code, my understanding of it is to

• A) attempt a connection to a server/port, returning various information including whether the connection succeeded (up) or failed (down)
• B) and includes an easy way to get the status of said connection.

I further assume this is a portion for some sort of server monitoring utility...

-Scott

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