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| 4 | 2.31 Jun 28 14:00 2003
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| 5 | - Win32 Compatibility fixes.
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| 6 | Patch by [email protected] (Marcus Holland-Moritz)
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| 7 | - Apply bleadperl patch #22204
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| 8 | - Add ToS support.
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| 9 | Patch by [email protected] (Martin Lorensen)
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| 10 |
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| 11 | 2.30 Apr 18 14:00 2003
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| 12 | - Fix select() bug for UDP and ICMP protocols
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| 13 | in case packet comes from wrong source or seq.
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| 14 | - Allow UDP ping to different IP addresses
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| 15 | without instantiating a new object.
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| 16 | - Add retrans() method to customize or disable
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| 17 | backoff factor for udp pings.
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| 18 | Thanks [email protected]
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| 19 | - Let ECONNRESET be considered reachable for
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| 20 | UDP pings. Now it works for cygwin.
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| 21 | Spot by [email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
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| 22 |
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| 23 | 2.29 Apr 12 15:00 2003
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| 24 | - Implement "double send()" concept for udp pings.
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| 25 | See: <http://perlmonks.thepen.com/42898.html>
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| 26 | Thanks to rdw @ perlmonks.
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| 27 | - Send multiple udp packets in case of loss.
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| 28 | - Exponential backoff code swiped from Net::DNS
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| 29 | Thanks to [email protected] (Michael Fuhr).
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| 30 | - Also allows to capture udp ECONNREFUSED condition.
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| 31 | - Rename tcp_service_check method to service_check.
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| 32 | - Allow demo/fping -s to force service check.
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| 33 | Idea by [email protected] (REZA Alijani)
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| 34 | - Fix return from ping to be compatible with wantarray
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| 35 | when the host doesn't even resolve.
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| 36 | - Add udp proto test to test suite.
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| 37 | - VMS patch from Craig Berry to pre-check echo.
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| 38 | - Apply bleadperl patch (change #18904)
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| 39 | - Apply bleadperl patch as explained:
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| 40 | http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-
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| 41 | porters/2003-03/msg00992.html
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| 42 |
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| 43 | 2.28 Jan 23 18:00 2003
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| 44 | - No new features. Bug fixes only.
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| 45 | - Fixed ICMP_STRUCT to work on Big Endian platforms.
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| 46 | Thanks to [email protected] (Dan Buettner)
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| 47 | for testing on Mac OS X 10.2.3 and many others
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| 48 | for testing on Big Endian boxes.
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| 49 | - Not do binmode(). Causes more problems than helps.
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| 50 | - Perl 5.004 compatibility fixes (Spot by Honza).
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| 51 |
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| 52 | 2.27 Jan 15 23:00 2003
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| 53 | - Patch by [email protected] (Sergey Lebedev):
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| 54 | - 1) Fixed response packet parsing offsets in ping_icmp.
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| 55 | - 2) Added icmp_result method.
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| 56 | - Patch by [email protected] (Radu Greab):
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| 57 | - 1) Changed ping_tcp() to use non-blocking connect
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| 58 | instead of alarm() interface in order to avoid
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| 59 | conflicts with user applications.
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| 60 | - 2) Also get rid of all eval {} code in ping_tcp
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| 61 | in order to avoid catching SIGALRM trigger and
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| 62 | to avoid conflicts with other evals.
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| 63 | - 3) Avoid ioctl() syscall for more accurate error
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| 64 | detection on non-blocking tcp connects.
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| 65 | - 4) Fix fcntl() syntax usage.
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| 66 | - Patch by [email protected] (Honza Pazdziora):
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| 67 | - 1) Fix icmp request pack code to be more platform
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| 68 | independent regardless of Big/Little Endian.
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| 69 | - 2) Use binmode for filehandle in case perl 5.8.0
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| 70 | tries to dink with the data stream.
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| 71 | - Other changes by Rob Brown:
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| 72 | - Fixed ack() failures under certain rare conditions.
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| 73 | - Use more appropriate \z instead of $ in regex.
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| 74 | - Resolved Cygwin "make test" problems reported by
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| 75 | [email protected] (H.Merijn Brand).
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| 76 | - Add sending a real ICMP packet in the test suite.
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| 77 | - Add Socket to PREREQ_PM (missing on some boxes?)
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| 78 | - Adjust syn_forking IPC pipe for fatter Win32 pids.
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| 79 | - Better handling of alarm() in test suite for Win32.
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| 80 | - Add a DESTROY method to reduce chances of
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| 81 | lingering connect-choking children.
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| 82 |
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| 83 | 2.26 Dec 02 12:00 2002
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| 84 | - More compatibility fixes.
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| 85 | - Thanks for Solaris bug reports:
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| 86 | [email protected] (Paul Gaborit)
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| 87 | [email protected] (Jost Krieger)
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| 88 | - Thanks for Solaris testing box:
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| 89 | [email protected] (Gunther Heintzen)
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| 90 | - Solaris ENOTCONN select() for write choke bug.
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| 91 | - Thanks for Cygwin bug reports:
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| 92 | [email protected] (H.Merijn Brand)
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| 93 | - Cygwin "EAGAIN instead of ECONNREFUSED" buttwag.
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| 94 |
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| 95 | 2.25 Nov 19 12:00 2002
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| 96 | - Handle condition where O_NONBLOCK tcp connects
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| 97 | immediately fail without EINPROGRESS
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| 98 | (certain platforms or SMP optimizations).
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| 99 |
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| 100 | 2.24 Oct 21 22:00 2002
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| 101 | - Compatibility fixes.
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| 102 | - Avoid using 127.1.1.1 and 127.2.2.2 because
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| 103 | it breaks on some platforms (Irix).
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| 104 | - Handle condition where nonblocking tcp connects
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| 105 | immediately connect on some platforms
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| 106 | (solaris and freebsd) and to be SMP safer.
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| 107 | - Win32 $p->ack( $host ) method should now work.
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| 108 | - Add ack( $host ) test cases to test suite.
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| 109 |
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| 110 | 2.23 Oct 18 22:00 2002
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| 111 | - Fix ack() fd "each" detection bug.
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| 112 | - Add nack() method for OO interface to the
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| 113 | reason why the ack() failed.
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| 114 | - Fix premature "Timed out" side effect when a
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| 115 | different specified ack( $host ) fails.
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| 116 | - IO::Socket::INET ephemeral port buttwag
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| 117 | hack for the t/450_service.t test.
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| 118 | - Documental changes.
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| 119 |
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| 120 | 2.22 Oct 17 16:00 2002
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| 121 | - Add $p->tcp_service_check() method to enforce
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| 122 | remote tcp service availability checking.
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| 123 | Patch by [email protected] (Jean-Francois Dive).
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| 124 | - Changed default behavior of "syn" protocol to
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| 125 | disabled tcp_service_check instead of enabled.
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| 126 | - Win32 compatibility changes ("syn" protocol).
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| 127 | - Increase timeouts for tests in case client or
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| 128 | server network(s) are busy.
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| 129 |
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| 130 | 2.21 Oct 14 12:00 2002
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| 131 | - Preserve/restore ALRM settings for tcp mode pings.
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| 132 | Spot by [email protected] (Daniel Berlin)
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| 133 | - Can now select device for udp and icmp protocols.
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| 134 | Patch by [email protected] (Thomas Sarlandie).
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| 135 | - Add new "syn" protocol to allow for mass parallel
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| 136 | (syncronous) TCP service reachability checking.
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| 137 | - Add ack() method to utilize non-blocking connect
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| 138 | (SYN/ACK) feature of the "syn" protocol.
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| 139 | - Add demo/fping script as a "syn" demonstration.
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| 140 | - Compatibiliy patches for cygwin.
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| 141 | Spot by [email protected] (Joseph Frazee)
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| 143 | 2.20 Jun 20 10:00 2002
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| 144 | - Perl 5.8.0 compatibility stuff.
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| 145 | Spot by [email protected] (David Dyck).
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| 146 | And patch by [email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
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| 147 | - Move INSTALL doc into perldoc.
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| 148 | - Allow source_verify method to work
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| 149 | for icmp protocol as well as udp.
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| 150 | Spot by [email protected] (Taner Halicioglu)
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| 152 | 2.19 Jun 03 19:00 2002
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| 153 | - Add $p->source_verify method to skip source
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| 154 | endpoint verification of udp protocol pings for
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| 155 | those remote destinations with multiple interfaces
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| 156 | that may have the "reverse telnet" bug.
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| 157 | Spot by [email protected] (David Dyck)
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| 158 | - Moved files to more standard locations.
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| 159 | - Less common martian used for ping test
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| 160 | to reduce conflicts
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| 161 |
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| 162 | 2.18 May 06 12:00 2002
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| 163 | - More RPM spec generalizations.
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| 164 |
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| 165 | 2.17 May 03 18:00 2002
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| 166 | - RPM spec generalizations.
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| 167 | [email protected] (Michael McLagan)
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| 168 | - Win32 compatibility changes.
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| 169 | (Didn't compile on Win32 since v2.11.)
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| 171 | 2.16 Apr 11 14:00 2002
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| 172 | - Documentation changes.
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| 173 | - Added INSTALL doc.
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| 174 | - Added README to rpm %doc.
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| 175 | - Added neat MakeMaker constants routine.
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| 176 | - Buttwag around Makefile.PL warnings:
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| 177 | o "the following files are missing in your kit"
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| 178 | o "is not a known MakeMaker parameter name"
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| 180 | 2.15 Apr 06 23:00 2002
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| 181 | - Added ABSTRACT info.
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| 182 | - Allow for smoother upgrade from
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| 183 | from older Net::Ping versions.
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| 184 | - Change default protocol from udp to tcp
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| 185 | so it will work on most default systems
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| 186 | without any arguments to new().
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| 188 | 2.14 Apr 01 14:00 2002
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| 189 | - Added text ip lookup feature.
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| 190 | [email protected] (Erick Calder)
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| 191 |
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| 192 | 2.13 Apr 01 14:00 2002
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| 193 | - Added ping time measuring feature.
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| 194 | [email protected] (Erick Calder)
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| 195 | - Optionally allow for high resolution
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| 196 | precision for timeouts and measuring
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| 197 | using the Time::HiRes module (Erick).
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| 199 | 2.12 Feb 17 19:00 2002
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| 200 | - More general error determination for
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| 201 | better cross platform consistency and
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| 202 | foreign language support.
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| 203 | Spotted by [email protected]
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| 204 | - Test changes for VMS (Craig Berry)
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| 205 |
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| 206 | 2.11 Feb 02 12:00 2002
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| 207 | - Test changes in case echo port is not available.
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| 208 | - Fix 110_icmp_inst.t to use icmp protocol
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| 209 | Spotted by [email protected] (Craig Berry)
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| 210 |
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| 211 | 2.10 Dec 26 12:00 2001
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| 212 | - Added bind() function useful for clients with multiple
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| 213 | network interfaces performing the ping check thanks to
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| 214 | [email protected] (Seth Blumberg).
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| 215 | - Execution optimizations for several constants (Seth).
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| 216 | - More test changes in case Socket module is not available
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| 217 | (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
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| 219 | 2.09 Dec 06 19:00 2001
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| 220 | - Documental and test changes only.
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| 221 | - No functional changes.
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| 223 | 2.08 Dec 04 13:00 2001
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| 224 | - Faster response for Win32 tcp_connect.
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| 225 | - Better explanations in test comments.
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| 227 | 2.07 Nov 28 13:00 2001
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| 228 | - Compatibility changes
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| 229 | - Works with UNIX and Win32 OS
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| 230 | - Works with Perl 5.005 5.6.x 5.7.x 5.8.x
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| 231 | - Applied several patches from distro
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| 232 | - External protocol added thanks to
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| 233 | [email protected] (Colin McMillen)
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| 234 | - Stream protocol added thanks to
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| 235 | [email protected] (Scott Bronson)
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| 237 | 2.06 Nov 19 12:00 2001
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| 238 | - Added Net-Ping.spec for RPM to easily
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| 239 | utilize using "rpm -ta Net-Ping*tar.gz"
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| 240 | - Moved Copyright section to perldoc
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| 241 |
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| 242 | 2.05 Nov 18 20:00 2001
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| 243 | - Added test suite
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| 245 | 2.04 Nov 16 16:00 2001
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| 246 | - Added CHANGES and README to tarball.
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| 247 | - No functional changes.
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| 248 |
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| 249 | 2.03 Nov 15 12:00 2001
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| 250 | - Portability adjustments to ping_tcp()
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| 251 | made by Rob Brown to work with most
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| 252 | default systems.
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| 254 | 2.02 Sep 27 12:00 1996
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| 255 | - Magic version by Russell Mosemann from CPAN
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