Change 6272 by jhi@alpha on 2000/06/29 21:41:28

	Subject: [ID 20000614.005] [patch] Tweak to Net::Ping docs
	From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@redcat.com>
	Received: (qmail 6398 invoked by uid 508); 15 Jun 2000 00:30:54 -0000
	Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:30:37 -0700 (PDT)

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==== //depot/cfgperl/lib/Net/Ping.pm#6 (text) ====
Index: perl/lib/Net/Ping.pm
--- perl/lib/Net/Ping.pm.~1~	Thu Nov 22 14:42:46 2001
+++ perl/lib/Net/Ping.pm	Thu Nov 22 14:42:46 2001
 @@ -442,7 +442,11 @@
 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
End of Patch.

... //depot/cfgperl/lib/Net/Ping.pm#6 edit

