Hi guys, I am trying to find the fastest way to determine whether a specific port is open on a host in my network... The problem that I have is that I need this to take very little time. So far i have been using the following code: 

use Socket;
socket (SOC, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 6) || die;
my $dest = pack('S n a4 x8',2,555,$svradr);
if (! connect (SOC, $dest)) {$errorcode=1;}

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but it takes a lot of time... (about a second) I am on Win32 using Active State Perl.

Is there a way I can speedup this process? ... by either specifying minimal timeout or something like that that will make everything faster?
Thank you very much for your answer.

In reply to Fastest way to determine whether a specific port is open via a Socket by avo

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