The Net::Ping croaking in the following line

$self->{"port_num"} = (getservbyname('echo', 'tcp'))[2] ||

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So I'm affraid that echo service is not defined in the services file ( c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services ), you might want to add echo service there which BTW uses port 7

I don't know what are you trying to do, but if I'm guessing correctly you only want to get the status of a host using regular ICMP pings ( like command line's ping ), in order to use icmp you have to specify that in the Net::Ping's constructor

use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::Ping;

my $ping = Net::Ping->new('icmp');
if ( $ping->ping('127.0.0.1') ) {
    print "alive\n";
} else {
    print "dead\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Ping error on WinXP by bluescreen
in thread Ping error on WinXP by sgarc90

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