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What I am looking to find out is if it is possible to check if result of ping failure using Net::Ping without parsing ping output. I want to know if host was unknown or if host was unreachable.

I have tried same script using system ping for list of hosts I want to ping - for some of the hosts I am getting unknown hosts for others I am getting Host unreacheable. Do I need to do something...

Hi

I am using perl to ping a list of nodes - with script below :

$p = Net::Ping->new("icmp");
if ($p->ping($host,1)){
print "$host is alive.\n";
}
...