I need to do check whether the remote machine is pinging so that i can do ssh to that machine and execute commands over there. how to do this check in perl?
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I need to do check whether the remote machine is pinging so that i can do ssh to that machine and execute commands over there. how to do this check in perl?
Net::Ping, but this is a dumb way to go about it. If you want to connect with SSH, just do it, and handle the failure if you cannot.If a network interface responds to ping, this is no guarantee that SSH works. Conversely, SSH can work and ping is blocked.