CHANGES ------- 2.20 Jun 20 10:00 2002 - Perl 5.8.0 compatibility stuff. Spot by dcd@tc.fluke.com (David Dyck). And patch by jhi@iki.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi). - Move INSTALL doc into perldoc. - Allow source_verify method to work for icmp protocol as well as udp. Spot by taner@taner.net (Taner Halicioglu) 2.19 Jun 03 19:00 2002 - Add $p->source_verify method to skip source endpoint verification of udp protocol pings for those remote destinations with multiple interfaces that may have the "reverse telnet" bug. Spot by dcd@tc.fluke.com (David Dyck) - Moved files to more standard locations. - Less common martian used for ping test to reduce conflicts 2.18 May 06 12:00 2002 - More RPM spec generalizations. 2.17 May 03 18:00 2002 - RPM spec generalizations. michael.mclagan@linux.org (Michael McLagan) - Win32 compatibility changes. (Didn't compile on Win32 since v2.11.) 2.16 Apr 11 14:00 2002 - Documentation changes. - Added INSTALL doc. - Added README to rpm %doc. - Added neat MakeMaker constants routine. - Buttwag around Makefile.PL warnings: o "the following files are missing in your kit" o "is not a known MakeMaker parameter name" 2.15 Apr 06 23:00 2002 - Added ABSTRACT info. - Allow for smoother upgrade from from older Net::Ping versions. - Change default protocol from udp to tcp so it will work on most default systems without any arguments to new(). 2.14 Apr 01 14:00 2002 - Added text ip lookup feature. e@arix.com (Erick Calder) 2.13 Apr 01 14:00 2002 - Added ping time measuring feature. e@arix.com (Erick Calder) - Optionally allow for high resolution precision for timeouts and measuring using the Time::HiRes module (Erick). 2.12 Feb 17 19:00 2002 - More general error determination for better cross platform consistency and foreign language support. Spotted by arnaud@romeconcept.com - Test changes for VMS (Craig Berry) 2.11 Feb 02 12:00 2002 - Test changes in case echo port is not available. - Fix 110_icmp_inst.t to use icmp protocol Spotted by craigberry@mac.com (Craig Berry) 2.10 Dec 26 12:00 2001 - Added bind() function useful for clients with multiple network interfaces performing the ping check thanks to sethb@clarkhill.com (Seth Blumberg). - Execution optimizations for several constants (Seth). - More test changes in case Socket module is not available (Jarkko Hietaniemi). 2.09 Dec 06 19:00 2001 - Documental and test changes only. - No functional changes. 2.08 Dec 04 13:00 2001 - Faster response for Win32 tcp_connect. - Better explanations in test comments. 2.07 Nov 28 13:00 2001 - Compatibility changes - Works with UNIX and Win32 OS - Works with Perl 5.005 5.6.x 5.7.x 5.8.x - Applied several patches from distro - External protocol added thanks to colinm@cpan.org (Colin McMillen) - Stream protocol added thanks to bronson@trestle.com (Scott Bronson) 2.06 Nov 19 12:00 2001 - Added Net-Ping.spec for RPM to easily utilize using "rpm -ta Net-Ping*tar.gz" - Moved Copyright section to perldoc 2.05 Nov 18 20:00 2001 - Added test suite 2.04 Nov 16 16:00 2001 - Added CHANGES and README to tarball. - No functional changes. 2.03 Nov 15 12:00 2001 - Portability adjustments to ping_tcp() made by Rob Brown to work with most default systems. 2.02 Sep 27 12:00 1996 - Magic version by Russell Mosemann from CPAN