CHANGES
-------
2.75 2022-09-01 12:44:03 rurban
Minor
- Modernized the synopsis (PR #31)
- Fixed a link in a comment (PR #25)
META Changes
- Remove some TEST_REQUIRES (PR #23)
Test fixes
- Support NO_NETWORK_TESTING=1 (PR #24)
- Fix non-routable addresses for negative tests (PR #24)
2.74 2020-09-09 09:21:39 rurban
Features
- Add ICMPv6_NI_REPLY support.
Bugfixes
- Fix icmp payload offset to match icmpv6 (JimC Leones GH #21)
Skip the 20 byte header to reliably find the various return types.
This unifies icmpv6 with icmp better.
- Fix $SOCKET::VERSION eval (Petr Pavlu, PR #22)
META Changes
- Fix and improve the META repository as hashref, license as arrayref
(Tom Hukins, PR #19)
- add TEST_REQUIRES
- sort MANIFEST
- add windows smokers: appveyor
Test fixes
- Improve the tcp test to localhost, when there is no route to localhost
(freebsd mostly)
- TODO a flaky 450_service.t on 127.0.0.1 on port 2 on Windows (analog to freebsd, ...)
(Christian Walde, PR #20)
- Skip 501_ping_icmpv6.t when icmpv6 cannot be initialized. Mostly due to missing
icmpv6 support. (GH #15)
- add more xt tests: t/602_kwalitee.t, t/603_meta.t, t/604_manifest.t
2.73 Thu Feb 27 14:32:25 CET 2020 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Fix shadowing of hash options in constructor (Patrick Heesom, RT #131919)
- Fix icmp v4 length with given bytes/data_size option (Patrick Heesom, RT #131919)
- Call _resolv as class method (Marc Reissner, GH #16)
2.72 Thu 28 Mar 2019 09:01:39 AM CET (rurban)
Features
Test fixes
- Skip failing freebsd localhost resolver tests
2.71 Tue Oct 16 18:41:51 CEST 2018 (rurban)
Features
- Allow data_size > 1024, up to 65535, i.e. fragmented packets.
It is recommended to stay below 1472 though for the typical 1500 MTU.
Many simple devices do not allow fragmented ICMP packets (> 1472).
RT #17409
Bugfixes
- Fix the max_datasize documentation
Test fixes
- The 2 sudo tests on PERL_CORE with a shared perl lib
2.70 Tue Aug 7 10:33:24 CEST 2018 (rurban)
Test fixes
- Fix broken skip count on 510_ping_udp.t (windows only)
2.69 Mon Aug 6 15:13:25 CEST 2018 (rurban)
Test fixes
- Allow NET_PING_FAIL_IP override for testing an IP which should not exist,
RT #126006 hmbrand
META Changes
- Updated README
2.68 Wed Jun 27 11:55:06 CEST 2018 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Fixed _resolv return value on failing DNS name lookup. (GH #12 nlv02636)
- Fixed installation dir from CPAN. Install into site, not perl there.
(GH #12 nlv02636)
2.67 Mon Jun 25 18:10:42 CEST 2018 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Fixed non-core icmp ping test. PR #10 Guillaume Bougard
- Change croak on failing name lookup to return undef,
matching the documentation.
Fixes the regression from 2.43, RT #124830
- Stabilize Socket::VERSION comparisons, errored with Net::Socket
2.020_03, RT #125677 Smoot Carl-Mitchell
Features
- Added icmp message_type method with timestamp support.
PR #11 Guillaume Bougard
2.66 Thu Mar 8 16:44:03 CET 2018 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Fixed icmpv6 ICMP_ECHOREPLY: nikolas@garofil.be RT 80479
- Fixed icmpv6 default family
- Simplify t/020_external.t
- Seperate timeout=0 and undef RT #97884
Features
- Added icmpv6 test.
- Added optional local tests hosts for the icmp tests:
TEST_PING_HOST and TEST_PING6_HOST
- allow sudo tests with local .git
- skip sudo test with asan leak detector on linux
2.65 Wed Mar 7 09:38:51 CET 2018 (rurban)
META Changes
- strip wrong Text::Template dependency and generation for the README
This is in core.
- Changed repo name from net-ping to Net-Ping.
- Made Makefile.PL more stable for the CPAN release, support older
perl + EUMM versions.
- Fixed up TODO for IPv6
2.64 Sat Mar 3 15:56:14 CET 2018 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- use NIx_NOSERV flag for windows (PR #6 by chorny)
2.63 Sun Nov 26 18:56:04 CET 2017 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Keep v5.002 - v5.6 support
- Removed outdated demo/fping from the documentation
(RT #123750 by Steve Morris)
- Added t/420_ping_syn_port.t (#4 by Julio Fraire)
with fixes.
Features
- added indices and crosslinks to the documentation
2.62 Tue Sep 12 13:20:25 2017 -0600 (Nicholas R)
Limitations (not on CPAN)
- Removed support for v5.002 < v5.6 by introducing our
2.61 Sat Jun 17 13:12:58 CEST 2017 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Fix ping_udp for a started udp echo server (PR#5 by Stephan Loyd)
2.60 Mon Jun 12 20:14:13 CEST 2017 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Fix t/400_ping_syn.t phases
- Try to handle Windows Socket::getnameinfo errors
- Improve some tests on missing network connections
2.59 Tue Apr 18 08:46:48 2017 +0200 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- skip udp ping tests on more platforms: hpux, irix, aix.
also pingecho on os390.
(from perl5 core)
Features
- added a make release target
2.58 Wed Feb 1 19:34:03 CET 2017 (rurban)
Features
- return the port num as 5th return value with ack (jfraire)
2.57 Wed Feb 1 19:34:03 CET 2017 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Resigned with new gpg key
2.56 Wed Jan 18 16:00:00 2017 -0700 (bbb)
Bugfixes
- Stabilize tests
2.55 Thu Oct 20 09:16:06 2016 +0200 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Skip sudo for t/500_ping_icmp.t if a prompt is required
[RT #118451]
2.54 Thu Oct 20 09:16:06 2016 +0200 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Fixed ping_external argument type, either packed ip or hostname.
[RT #113825]
- Fixed wrong skip message in t/020_external.t
2.53 Thu Oct 20 09:16:06 2016 +0200 (rurban)
Bugfixes
- Relax icmp tests on local firewalls, eg. as here on windows reported
by kmx. [RT #118441]
Internals
- Enhanced .travis.yml
2.52 Tue Oct 18 16:29:29 2016 +0200 (rurban)
version in cperl since 5.25.2c
Bugfixes
- Fixed _pack_sockaddr_in for a proper 2nd argument type, hash or packed address.
- Improved 500_ping_icmp.t to try sudo.
Internals
- Converted all hash string keys to bare.
2.51 Mon Oct 17 16:11:03 2016 +0200 (rurban)
version in cperl since 5.25.2c
Bugfixes
- Fixed missing _unpack_sockaddr_in family, which took AF_INET6 for
a AF_INET addr in t/500_ping_icmp.t and t/500_ping_icmp_ttl.t.
Use now a proper default.
2.50 Sat Apr 16 11:50:20 2016 +0200 (rurban)
version in cperl since 5.22.2c
Features
- Handle IPv6 addresses and the AF_INET6 family.
- Added the optional family argument to most methods.
valid values: 6, "v6", "ip6", "ipv6", AF_INET6
- new can take now named arguments, a hashref.
- Added the following named arguments to new:
gateway host port bind retrans pingstring source_verify econnrefused
IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU IPV6_RECVPATHMTU IPV6_HOPLIMIT
- Added a dontfrag option, setting IP_DONTFRAG and on linux
also IP_MTU_DISCOVER to IP_PMTUDISC_DO. Note that is ignored if
Socket does not export IP_DONTFRAG.
- Added the wakeonlan method
- Improve argument default handling
- Added missing documentation
Bugfixes
- Reapply tos with ping_udp, when the address is changed.
RT #6706 (Torgny.Hofstedt@sevenlevels.se)
ditto re-bind to a device.
Internals
- $ip is now a hash with {addr, addr_in, family} not the addr_in packed IP.
- added _resolv replacing inet_aton,
_pack_sockaddr_in and _unpack_sockaddr_in replacing sockaddr_in,
_inet_ntoa replacing inet_ntoa
- Use _isroot helper, with Win32 _IsAdminUser helper.
- added several new tests (Steve Peters)
2.43 Mon Apr 29 00:23:56 2013 -0300
version in perl core since 5.19.9
Bugfixes
- Handle getprotobyn{ame,umber} not being available
2.42 Sun May 26 19:08:46 2013 -0700
version in perl core since 5.19.1
Bugfixes
- Stabilize tests
Internals
- wrap long pod lines
2.41 Mar 17 09:35 2013
Bugfixes
- Windows Vista does not appear to support inet_ntop(). It seems to
have InetNtop() instead. So, working around by using getnameinfo()
and passing in the NI_NUMERICHOST to get an IP address.
Features
- Change Net::Ping to use Time::HiRes::time() instead of CORE::time()
by default. For most successful cases, CORE::time() returned zero.
2.40 Mar 15 11:20 2013
Bugfixes
- several fixes to tests to stop the black smoke on Win32's
and Cygwin since the core updated the module to Test::More.
I had planned a later release, but all the black smoke is
forcing a release.
- fixes to some skips in tests that were still using the
Test style skip's.
Thanks to Keith Taylor <keith@supanet.net.uk>
- Instead of using a hard-coded TOS value, import IP_TOS from
Socket. This fixes an outstanding bug on Solaris which uses a
different value for IP_TOS in it headers than Linux. I'm assuming
other OS's were fixed with this change as well.
Features
- added TTL handling for icmp pings to allow traceroute like
applications to be built with Net::Ping. Thanks to
<rolek@bokxing.nl> for the patch and tests!
Internals
- replaced SOL_IP with IPPROTO_IP. SOL_IP is not portable and was
hard-coded anyway.
- added IPPROTO_IP, IP_TOS, IP_TTL, and AF_INET to the list of Socket
constants imported.
- removed some hard-coded constants.
- converted all calls to inet_ntoa() to inet_ntop() in preparation
for further ipv6 updates.
Infrastructure
- Makefile.PL updated to require Test::More, Time::HiRes, and a
recent Socket
- several changes for github hosting
- add a .gitignore file
- added a .travis.yml file to allow CI testing with changes pushed
to github
- replaced the README with a README.md which displays the
Travis CI build status on github.
2.39 Mar 13 09:25 2013
- patch from Matthew Musgrove to resolve RT #45812. Thanks!
- pulled in several changes from the Perl core
2.36 Jun 08 12:00 2009
- release to include a few fixes from the Perl core
2.35 Feb 08 14:42 2008
- Patch in Perl change #33242 by Nicholas Clark
2.34 Dec 19 08:51 2007
- Release primarily to prevent problems with the Perl core in
preparation for the Perl 5.10 release. No real bug fixes, but
text fixes are included.
- skip test t/510_ping_udp.t on Windows Vista. Thanks to Jan
Dubois for the code to test for Vista.
- t/510_ping_udp.t should check for a udp echo port, not a tcp
echo port.
2.33 Jul 31 20:15 2007
- add new method port_number() rather than asking users to
twiddle with the internals of Net::Ping to probe a specific
port. This should resolve a few bugs where the documentation
was lacking.
- apply patch from bergonz at labs.it. This patch resolves
several problems logged regarding using Net::Ping in a multi-
threaded program. Thanks so much!
2.32 Jul 30 21:30 2007
- new co-maintainer Steve Peters
- integrate assorted bleadperl fixes from the past four years
2.31 Jun 28 14:00 2003
- Win32 Compatibility fixes.
Patch by mhx-perl@gmx.net (Marcus Holland-Moritz)
- Apply bleadperl patch #22204
- Add ToS support.
Patch by martin@lorensen.dk (Martin Lorensen)
2.30 Apr 18 14:00 2003
- Fix select() bug for UDP and ICMP protocols
in case packet comes from wrong source or seq.
- Allow UDP ping to different IP addresses
without instantiating a new object.
- Add retrans() method to customize or disable
backoff factor for udp pings.
Thanks Torgny.Hofstedt@sevenlevels.se
- Let ECONNRESET be considered reachable for
UDP pings. Now it works for cygwin.
Spot by jhi@iki.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
2.29 Apr 12 15:00 2003
- Implement "double send()" concept for udp pings.
Thanks to rdw @ perlmonks.
- Send multiple udp packets in case of loss.
- Exponential backoff code swiped from Net::DNS
Thanks to mike@fuhr.org (Michael Fuhr).
- Also allows to capture udp ECONNREFUSED condition.
- Rename tcp_service_check method to service_check.
- Allow demo/fping -s to force service check.
Idea by ralijani@yahoo.com (REZA Alijani)
- Fix return from ping to be compatible with wantarray
when the host doesn't even resolve.
- Add udp proto test to test suite.
- VMS patch from Craig Berry to pre-check echo.
- Apply bleadperl patch (change #18904)
- Apply bleadperl patch as explained:
porters/2003-03/msg00992.html
2.28 Jan 23 18:00 2003
- No new features. Bug fixes only.
- Fixed ICMP_STRUCT to work on Big Endian platforms.
Thanks to danb@thelittlemacshop.com (Dan Buettner)
for testing on Mac OS X 10.2.3 and many others
for testing on Big Endian boxes.
- Not do binmode(). Causes more problems than helps.
- Perl 5.004 compatibility fixes (Spot by Honza).
2.27 Jan 15 23:00 2003
- Patch by slebedev@iwl.net (Sergey Lebedev):
- 1) Fixed response packet parsing offsets in ping_icmp.
- 2) Added icmp_result method.
- Patch by radu@netsoft.ro (Radu Greab):
- 1) Changed ping_tcp() to use non-blocking connect
instead of alarm() interface in order to avoid
conflicts with user applications.
- 2) Also get rid of all eval {} code in ping_tcp
in order to avoid catching SIGALRM trigger and
to avoid conflicts with other evals.
- 3) Avoid ioctl() syscall for more accurate error
detection on non-blocking tcp connects.
- 4) Fix fcntl() syntax usage.
- Patch by adelton@fi.muni.cz (Honza Pazdziora):
- 1) Fix icmp request pack code to be more platform
independent regardless of Big/Little Endian.
- 2) Use binmode for filehandle in case perl 5.8.0
tries to dink with the data stream.
- Other changes by Rob Brown:
- Fixed ack() failures under certain rare conditions.
- Use more appropriate \z instead of $ in regex.
- Resolved Cygwin "make test" problems reported by
h.m.brand@hccnet.nl (H.Merijn Brand).
- Add sending a real ICMP packet in the test suite.
- Add Socket to PREREQ_PM (missing on some boxes?)
- Adjust syn_forking IPC pipe for fatter Win32 pids.
- Better handling of alarm() in test suite for Win32.
- Add a DESTROY method to reduce chances of
lingering connect-choking children.
2.26 Dec 02 12:00 2002
- More compatibility fixes.
- Thanks for Solaris bug reports:
Paul.Gaborit@enstimac.fr (Paul Gaborit)
Jost.Krieger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Jost Krieger)
- Thanks for Solaris testing box:
Gunther.Heintzen@rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Gunther Heintzen)
- Solaris ENOTCONN select() for write choke bug.
- Thanks for Cygwin bug reports:
h.m.brand@hccnet.nl (H.Merijn Brand)
- Cygwin "EAGAIN instead of ECONNREFUSED" buttwag.
2.25 Nov 19 12:00 2002
- Handle condition where O_NONBLOCK tcp connects
immediately fail without EINPROGRESS
(certain platforms or SMP optimizations).
2.24 Oct 21 22:00 2002
- Compatibility fixes.
- Avoid using 127.1.1.1 and 127.2.2.2 because
it breaks on some platforms (Irix).
- Handle condition where nonblocking tcp connects
immediately connect on some platforms
(solaris and freebsd) and to be SMP safer.
- Win32 $p->ack( $host ) method should now work.
- Add ack( $host ) test cases to test suite.
2.23 Oct 18 22:00 2002
- Fix ack() fd "each" detection bug.
- Add nack() method for OO interface to the
reason why the ack() failed.
- Fix premature "Timed out" side effect when a
different specified ack( $host ) fails.
- IO::Socket::INET ephemeral port buttwag
hack for the t/450_service.t test.
- Documental changes.
2.22 Oct 17 16:00 2002
- Add $p->tcp_service_check() method to enforce
remote tcp service availability checking.
Patch by jef@linuxbe.org (Jean-Francois Dive).
- Changed default behavior of "syn" protocol to
disabled tcp_service_check instead of enabled.
- Win32 compatibility changes ("syn" protocol).
- Increase timeouts for tests in case client or
server network(s) are busy.
2.21 Oct 14 12:00 2002
- Preserve/restore ALRM settings for tcp mode pings.
Spot by d@niel-berlin.de (Daniel Berlin)
- Can now select device for udp and icmp protocols.
Patch by sarfata@altern.org (Thomas Sarlandie).
- Add new "syn" protocol to allow for mass parallel
(synchronous) TCP service reachability checking.
- Add ack() method to utilize non-blocking connect
(SYN/ACK) feature of the "syn" protocol.
- Add demo/fping script as a "syn" demonstration.
- Compatibility patches for cygwin.
Spot by frazee.23@osu.edu (Joseph Frazee)
2.20 Jun 20 10:00 2002
- Perl 5.8.0 compatibility stuff.
Spot by dcd@tc.fluke.com (David Dyck).
And patch by jhi@iki.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
- Move INSTALL doc into perldoc.
- Allow source_verify method to work
for icmp protocol as well as udp.
Spot by taner@taner.net (Taner Halicioglu)
2.19 Jun 03 19:00 2002
- Add $p->source_verify method to skip source
endpoint verification of udp protocol pings for
those remote destinations with multiple interfaces
that may have the "reverse telnet" bug.
Spot by dcd@tc.fluke.com (David Dyck)
- Moved files to more standard locations.
- Less common martian used for ping test
to reduce conflicts
2.18 May 06 12:00 2002
- More RPM spec generalizations.
2.17 May 03 18:00 2002
- RPM spec generalizations.
michael.mclagan@linux.org (Michael McLagan)
- Win32 compatibility changes.
(Didn't compile on Win32 since v2.11.)
2.16 Apr 11 14:00 2002
- Documentation changes.
- Added INSTALL doc.
- Added README to rpm %doc.
- Added neat MakeMaker constants routine.
- Buttwag around Makefile.PL warnings:
o "the following files are missing in your kit"
o "is not a known MakeMaker parameter name"
2.15 Apr 06 23:00 2002
- Added ABSTRACT info.
- Allow for smoother upgrade from
from older Net::Ping versions.
- Change default protocol from udp to tcp
so it will work on most default systems
without any arguments to new().
2.14 Apr 01 14:00 2002
- Added text ip lookup feature.
e@arix.com (Erick Calder)
2.13 Apr 01 14:00 2002
- Added ping time measuring feature.
e@arix.com (Erick Calder)
- Optionally allow for high resolution
precision for timeouts and measuring
using the Time::HiRes module (Erick).
2.12 Feb 17 19:00 2002
- More general error determination for
better cross platform consistency and
foreign language support.
Spotted by arnaud@romeconcept.com
- Test changes for VMS (Craig Berry)
2.11 Feb 02 12:00 2002
- Test changes in case echo port is not available.
- Fix 110_icmp_inst.t to use icmp protocol
Spotted by craigberry@mac.com (Craig Berry)
2.10 Dec 26 12:00 2001
- Added bind() function useful for clients with multiple
network interfaces performing the ping check thanks to
sethb@clarkhill.com (Seth Blumberg).
- Execution optimizations for several constants (Seth).
- More test changes in case Socket module is not available
(Jarkko Hietaniemi).
2.09 Dec 06 19:00 2001
- Documental and test changes only.
- No functional changes.
2.08 Dec 04 13:00 2001
- Faster response for Win32 tcp_connect.
- Better explanations in test comments.
2.07 Nov 28 13:00 2001
- Compatibility changes
- Works with UNIX and Win32 OS
- Works with Perl 5.005 5.6.x 5.7.x 5.8.x
- Applied several patches from distro
- External protocol added thanks to
colinm@cpan.org (Colin McMillen)
- Stream protocol added thanks to
bronson@trestle.com (Scott Bronson)
2.06 Nov 19 12:00 2001
- Added Net-Ping.spec for RPM to easily
utilize using "rpm -ta Net-Ping*tar.gz"
- Moved Copyright section to perldoc
2.05 Nov 18 20:00 2001
- Added test suite
2.04 Nov 16 16:00 2001
- Added CHANGES and README to tarball.
- No functional changes.
2.03 Nov 15 12:00 2001
- Portability adjustments to ping_tcp()
made by Rob Brown to work with most
default systems.
2.02 Sep 27 12:00 1996
- Magic version by Russell Mosemann from CPAN