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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-07-11 19:11:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-07-11 19:11:18 +0000 |
| commit | be3174d2532d82826fc0aa416a83ef8ce0f07732 (patch) | |
| tree | dcb2f29d4e1d0a6db01d7d1c2c96304de9c13b8d /lib/Net | |
| parent | 5e5f20b507b6c3b7749b1f2f6cfd8a156eca9deb (diff) | |
| download | perl-be3174d2532d82826fc0aa416a83ef8ce0f07732.tar.gz | |
integrate cfgperl changes#6268..6282 into mainline
p4raw-link: @6282 on //depot/cfgperl: d4817f5b97d4072a6efac47844b617245b179f2c
p4raw-link: @6268 on //depot/cfgperl: 22e04bdb3a09a4c369fd1666143349eab2eba9d4
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6366
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6365 'copy in' lib/Net/Ping.pm
lib/Text/Wrap.pm t/lib/dprof.t t/lib/dumper-ovl.t
t/lib/hostname.t (@5586..) lib/Pod/Html.pm (@5608..)
t/lib/ipc_sysv.t (@5812..) t/lib/dumper.t (@5972..)
ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm (@6026..) lib/Pod/Man.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm
(@6034..) t/lib/anydbm.t (@6072..) lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
(@6156..) pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltie.pod (@6206..)
utils/h2xs.PL (@6280..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6282 'merge in' vms/vms.c
(@6238..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6277 'copy in' pod/perlfunc.pod
(@6276..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6273 'ignore' perlapi.h
(@6243..) embedvar.h (@6254..) 'merge in' perlapi.c (@6243..)
embed.h (@6254..) embed.pl objXSUB.h op.c proto.h (@6269..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6270 'copy in' t/op/taint.t
(@5857..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6269 'copy in' doop.c (@6263..)
'ignore' toke.c (@6261..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6268 'copy in' t/op/sprintf.t
(@6267..)
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Net')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Net/Ping.pm | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Net/Ping.pm b/lib/Net/Ping.pm index 2713383a00..40da9f3817 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 |