From: Jonathan Stowe Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:28:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: The documentation part of the X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba8309365e8a4d351bec425ce6b123adae09dde0;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git The documentation part of the Subject: [ID 20001214.002] Net::Ping patch Message-Id: since the #7529 had already addressed the same problem. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8113 --- diff --git a/lib/Net/Ping.pm b/lib/Net/Ping.pm index e3006f9..20a642e 100644 --- a/lib/Net/Ping.pm +++ b/lib/Net/Ping.pm @@ -460,6 +460,11 @@ received from the remote host and the received packet contains the same data as the packet that was sent, the remote host is considered reachable. This protocol does not require any special privileges. +It should be borne in mind that, for both tcp and udp ping, a host +will be reported as unreachable if if not is not running the +appropriate echo service. For Unix-like systems see L for +more information. + If the "icmp" protocol is specified, the ping() method sends an icmp echo message to the remote host, which is what the UNIX ping program does. If the echoed message is received from the remote host and