Having discussed this in the CB with magnus it seems that he has a rather old version of Net::Ping (v1.01). This version has a functional interface and therefore doesn't have a new method.

The solution is therefore to download the most recent (but still four years old!) version from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-Ping).

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me