[rochester-pm-list] ping

[David Simcik]

It could be that your account does not have permission to use Ping. I think this
is mentioned in the Perl Cookbook by O'Reilly.

>>DTS<<

Bryan wrote:

> This is my code,
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print "Content-type: TEXT/HTML\n\n";
> print "start ping<P>";
> use Net::Ping;
> $p = Net::Ping->new() or die "Can't create new ping object: $!\n";
> print "yahoo.com is alive" if $p->ping('[D');
> $p->close;
> print "end ping";
>
> Why doesnt it work?
>
> I am using 9netave's server... and the code works, but returns only my start
> and end print's thats it... anyone have any pointers for me?
>
> -Bryan