Phoenix.pm: Net::Ping Object

[David A. Sinck]

You might need root to do it; ping is suid.

\_ SMTP quoth Frooninckx Craig - cfroon on 2/5/2002 10:36 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ I've written a small application that is suppose to go out and ping a server
\_ to verify that the network is still active between the local server and the
\_ remote server.  When I do a command line ping it works fine, however, when I
\_ use the Net::Ping object, it reports that it is unable to access the remote
\_ server (in the code the remote server is actually the localserver).  Can
\_ anyone see the bug??
\_ 
\_ -Craig
\_ 
\_ 
\_ SOURCE CODE:
\_ #!/usr/bin/perl -w
\_ 
\_ # Application to check the availibility of production servers every hour.
\_ 
\_ use strict;
\_ 
\_ use Net::Ping;
\_ use Date::Format;
\_ 
\_ while () {
\_         my $p = Net::Ping->new() or die "Can't create ping: $!\n";
\_         my $time = time2str( "%X", time );
\_         print "\nTime: $time\n";
\_         my $host = "127.0.0.1";
\_         print "Ping: ", $p->ping( $host ), "\n";
\_         print "$host is responding!\n" if $p->ping( $host );
\_         $p->close;
\_         sleep 60;
\_ };
\_ 
\_ __END__
\_ 
\_ RESULTS:
\_ cfroon at gsgatlas: /usr/users/cfroon/Perl => ping.pl      
\_ 
\_ Time: 10:32:20
\_ Ping: 0
\_ cfroon at gsgatlas: /usr/users/cfroon/Perl => ping 127.0.0.1
\_ PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
\_ 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0 ms
\_ 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0 ms
\_ 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0 ms
\_ 
\_ 
\_ ----127.0.0.1 PING Statistics----
\_ 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
\_ round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 0/0/0 ms
\_ 
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