Thanks much mkmcconn, Gloom, and a Your comments are very much appreciated.

Yes, [no such node, ID 2347], you are correct in that it is a naive benchmark that should at least pacify my boss when he complains. (At least now I have SOMETHING to show him).

I'd like your thoughts on the layout of the data when I incorporate traceroute figures into the presentation. I've been thinking about this, but haven't yet come up with how to incorporate that data into the table. Suggestions are welcome.

Yes, I've got a LOT to learn about perl yet. It's been interesting thus far, I imagine it will become even more interesting as my learning increases.

I thought of the @sites problem when I was coding it. I didn't like the same data being in two places then, but I didn't take the time to code in reading the data from a config file.

I'll certainly take all of these comments and try to apply them to the current script. When I'm done, I'll post the results again.

a, yes, I need to start 'use strict'.

Aside from your smoother code rewrites, I particularily like your idea of multiple debug levels. (Why didn't I think of that ?) Cool, I like it !!

I'll be looking at both of these nodes for sometime to come to glean all of the pointers that were left for me.

Sorry for the duplicate posting. Actually this is the wrong node, the links at the bottom are hosed. The correct node is Reaped: Testing the network connection. Those links work.

Thanks again ! mkmcconn, Gloom, and a