From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T01:29:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Net-Ping Timeout Error

Anoop Chandran wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am getting the following error
> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/net/ping.rb:83:in `ping?': undefined method
> `close' for #<Timeout::Error: execution expired> (NoMethodError)
>
> I get this error while trying to ping multiple hosts, using the PingTCP
> method
> defined in net-ping "1.1.0". The error is generated randomly and It 
> happens
> with
> even after changing the default timeout=5
>
> Could anyone suggest a workaround for this error ?
>
> Regards
> Anoop
>
That's a bug.  I'll have a new release out asap.

Dan