From: Tom Phoenix Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:30:37 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [ID 20000614.005] [patch] Tweak to Net::Ping docs X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2dc00d5bf719a9ed74e0637ca74ee27c3de3fb36;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git [ID 20000614.005] [patch] Tweak to Net::Ping docs Received: (qmail 6398 invoked by uid 508); 15 Jun 2000 00:30:54 -0000 p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6272 --- diff --git a/lib/Net/Ping.pm b/lib/Net/Ping.pm index 2713383..40da9f3 100644 --- a/lib/Net/Ping.pm +++ b/lib/Net/Ping.pm @@ -442,7 +442,11 @@ hosts on a network. A ping object is first created with optional parameters, a variable number of hosts may be pinged multiple times and then the connection is closed. -You may choose one of three different protocols to use for the ping. +You may choose one of three different protocols to use for the +ping. The "udp" protocol is the default. Note that a live remote host +may still fail to be pingable by one or more of these protocols. For +example, www.microsoft.com is generally alive but not pingable. + With the "tcp" protocol the ping() method attempts to establish a connection to the remote host's echo port. If the connection is successfully established, the remote host is considered reachable. No