From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-03-17T09:05:29+09:00
Subject: Re: The philosophy of failed pings


On Mar 16, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
> I need some advice. I recently received a bug report for
> Net::Ping::External class (part of
> the net-ping package) where the user was getting false positives.
>
> In his case he was pinging some bogus loopback address. The ping
> command did not raise any error or warning, but it did have 100%
> packet failure.

I'm not sure I understand.  Net::Ping::External#ping(host) was
returning true even though there was 100% packet loss to the host?

I don't think #ping(host) should return true unless there has
actually been a packet returned from the targeted host.

Not sure if that answers your question though.


Gary Wright