in reply to UDP port scan?

Since you are reinventing the wheel, it might be worth looking at what other such monitoring platforms (nagios, Big Brother) do. I'd bet they've got a suitable client implementation of the protocol and if the server doesn't respond within whatever timeframe is configured it flags the server as being down / unreachable / kidnaped by rabid spider monkeys.

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Re^2: UDP port scan?
by pileofrogs (Priest) on Jan 18, 2006 at 01:34 UTC
    1. I've never been satisfied with existing monitoring suites. Not because they're bad, but because I always want to tweak them so much that I'm basically re-writing them.
    2. I don't want a protocol specific scanner. I want something generic.
    3. I want something that isn't part of Net::DHCP or Net::NTP or whatever I'm going to use to test the real functionality of the server. I'm intentionally creating redundancy.
    4. If you're recommending that I read the source of the existing scanners, good idea!
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