Craig A. Berry wrote: [...]
Obviously there's no way we can or should resolve this in a way that will satisfy everybody. With the exception of twiddling the non-blocking bit on a socket, Net::Ping works fine on VMS if you have an echo service running. If you don't it won't, and it's your choice.
Ah, ok. Perl 5.6.0 ships with Net::Ping v2.02, which does an icmp ping, works OK, and which, yes, requires some privs.
A quick test shows that you need NETMBX and one of BYPASS, SYSPRV, or OPER.
Does the new Net::Ping still require fcntl and an echo server for an icmp ping? If so, then another option may be to just use Net::Ping from an older perl, with the necessary privs.
I'm not sure which option VMS system managers would feel more comfortable with: turning on an echo server or granting oper priv...
brad
