I googled and got jim@watersheep.org's nbtstat.pl. I am running perl 5.8.5-7 and it hangs when it gets to '$sock->recv($data,$buffsize);' when I pass the script a non-windows IP, as if it is ignoring the timeout. Does anyone have an idea why? 
use IO::Socket;
.
.
.
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (  PeerAddr => $host,
    PeerPort => $port,
    Proto => $proto,
    Timeout => $timeout);

if (! $sock) {
        die "Socket not opened: $!\n";
}

$sock->send($request);
$sock->recv($data,$buffsize);
$sock->close;

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Thanks, Steve

In reply to nbtstat.pl fails for non-windows IP by sgrey

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