3 2.75 2022-09-01 12:44:03 rurban
5 - Modernized the synopsis (PR #31)
6 - Fixed a link in a comment (PR #25)
8 - Remove some TEST_REQUIRES (PR #23)
10 - Support NO_NETWORK_TESTING=1 (PR #24)
11 - Fix non-routable addresses for negative tests (PR #24)
12 2.74 2020-09-09 09:21:39 rurban
14 - Add ICMPv6_NI_REPLY support.
16 - Fix icmp payload offset to match icmpv6 (JimC Leones GH #21)
17 Skip the 20 byte header to reliably find the various return types.
18 This unifies icmpv6 with icmp better.
19 - Fix $SOCKET::VERSION eval (Petr Pavlu, PR #22)
21 - Fix and improve the META repository as hashref, license as arrayref
25 - add windows smokers: appveyor
27 - Improve the tcp test to localhost, when there is no route to localhost
29 - TODO a flaky 450_service.t on 127.0.0.1 on port 2 on Windows (analog to freebsd, ...)
30 (Christian Walde, PR #20)
31 - Skip 501_ping_icmpv6.t when icmpv6 cannot be initialized. Mostly due to missing
32 icmpv6 support. (GH #15)
33 - add more xt tests: t/602_kwalitee.t, t/603_meta.t, t/604_manifest.t
35 2.73 Thu Feb 27 14:32:25 CET 2020 (rurban)
37 - Fix shadowing of hash options in constructor (Patrick Heesom, RT #131919)
38 - Fix icmp v4 length with given bytes/data_size option (Patrick Heesom, RT #131919)
39 - Call _resolv as class method (Marc Reissner, GH #16)
41 2.72 Thu 28 Mar 2019 09:01:39 AM CET (rurban)
43 - add .cirrus.yml smoker https://cirrus-ci.com/github/rurban/Net-Ping
45 - Skip failing freebsd localhost resolver tests
47 2.71 Tue Oct 16 18:41:51 CEST 2018 (rurban)
49 - Allow data_size > 1024, up to 65535, i.e. fragmented packets.
50 It is recommended to stay below 1472 though for the typical 1500 MTU.
51 Many simple devices do not allow fragmented ICMP packets (> 1472).
54 - Fix the max_datasize documentation
56 - The 2 sudo tests on PERL_CORE with a shared perl lib
58 2.70 Tue Aug 7 10:33:24 CEST 2018 (rurban)
60 - Fix broken skip count on 510_ping_udp.t (windows only)
62 2.69 Mon Aug 6 15:13:25 CEST 2018 (rurban)
64 - Allow NET_PING_FAIL_IP override for testing an IP which should not exist,
69 2.68 Wed Jun 27 11:55:06 CEST 2018 (rurban)
71 - Fixed _resolv return value on failing DNS name lookup. (GH #12 nlv02636)
72 - Fixed installation dir from CPAN. Install into site, not perl there.
75 2.67 Mon Jun 25 18:10:42 CEST 2018 (rurban)
77 - Fixed non-core icmp ping test. PR #10 Guillaume Bougard
78 - Change croak on failing name lookup to return undef,
79 matching the documentation.
80 Fixes the regression from 2.43, RT #124830
81 - Stabilize Socket::VERSION comparisons, errored with Net::Socket
82 2.020_03, RT #125677 Smoot Carl-Mitchell
84 - Added icmp message_type method with timestamp support.
85 PR #11 Guillaume Bougard
87 2.66 Thu Mar 8 16:44:03 CET 2018 (rurban)
89 - Fixed icmpv6 ICMP_ECHOREPLY: nikolas@garofil.be RT 80479
90 - Fixed icmpv6 default family
91 - Simplify t/020_external.t
92 - Seperate timeout=0 and undef RT #97884
95 - Added optional local tests hosts for the icmp tests:
96 TEST_PING_HOST and TEST_PING6_HOST
97 - allow sudo tests with local .git
98 - skip sudo test with asan leak detector on linux
100 2.65 Wed Mar 7 09:38:51 CET 2018 (rurban)
102 - strip wrong Text::Template dependency and generation for the README
103 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=124693
105 - Changed repo name from net-ping to Net-Ping.
106 - Changed bugtracker to https://github.com/rurban/Net-Ping/issues
107 - Made Makefile.PL more stable for the CPAN release, support older
108 perl + EUMM versions.
109 - Fixed up TODO for IPv6
111 2.64 Sat Mar 3 15:56:14 CET 2018 (rurban)
113 - use NIx_NOSERV flag for windows (PR #6 by chorny)
115 2.63 Sun Nov 26 18:56:04 CET 2017 (rurban)
117 - Keep v5.002 - v5.6 support
118 - Removed outdated demo/fping from the documentation
119 (RT #123750 by Steve Morris)
120 - Added t/420_ping_syn_port.t (#4 by Julio Fraire)
123 - added indices and crosslinks to the documentation
125 2.62 Tue Sep 12 13:20:25 2017 -0600 (Nicholas R)
126 Limitations (not on CPAN)
127 - Removed support for v5.002 < v5.6 by introducing our
129 2.61 Sat Jun 17 13:12:58 CEST 2017 (rurban)
131 - Fix ping_udp for a started udp echo server (PR#5 by Stephan Loyd)
133 2.60 Mon Jun 12 20:14:13 CEST 2017 (rurban)
135 - Fix t/400_ping_syn.t phases
136 - Try to handle Windows Socket::getnameinfo errors
137 - Improve some tests on missing network connections
139 2.59 Tue Apr 18 08:46:48 2017 +0200 (rurban)
141 - skip udp ping tests on more platforms: hpux, irix, aix.
142 also pingecho on os390.
145 - added a make release target
147 2.58 Wed Feb 1 19:34:03 CET 2017 (rurban)
149 - return the port num as 5th return value with ack (jfraire)
151 2.57 Wed Feb 1 19:34:03 CET 2017 (rurban)
153 - Resigned with new gpg key
155 2.56 Wed Jan 18 16:00:00 2017 -0700 (bbb)
159 2.55 Thu Oct 20 09:16:06 2016 +0200 (rurban)
162 - Skip sudo for t/500_ping_icmp.t if a prompt is required
165 2.54 Thu Oct 20 09:16:06 2016 +0200 (rurban)
168 - Fixed ping_external argument type, either packed ip or hostname.
170 - Fixed wrong skip message in t/020_external.t
172 2.53 Thu Oct 20 09:16:06 2016 +0200 (rurban)
175 - Relax icmp tests on local firewalls, eg. as here on windows reported
179 - Enhanced .travis.yml
181 2.52 Tue Oct 18 16:29:29 2016 +0200 (rurban)
182 version in cperl since 5.25.2c
185 - Fixed _pack_sockaddr_in for a proper 2nd argument type, hash or packed address.
186 - Improved 500_ping_icmp.t to try sudo.
189 - Converted all hash string keys to bare.
191 2.51 Mon Oct 17 16:11:03 2016 +0200 (rurban)
192 version in cperl since 5.25.2c
195 - Fixed missing _unpack_sockaddr_in family, which took AF_INET6 for
196 a AF_INET addr in t/500_ping_icmp.t and t/500_ping_icmp_ttl.t.
197 Use now a proper default.
199 2.50 Sat Apr 16 11:50:20 2016 +0200 (rurban)
200 version in cperl since 5.22.2c
203 - Handle IPv6 addresses and the AF_INET6 family.
204 - Added the optional family argument to most methods.
205 valid values: 6, "v6", "ip6", "ipv6", AF_INET6
206 - new can take now named arguments, a hashref.
207 - Added the following named arguments to new:
208 gateway host port bind retrans pingstring source_verify econnrefused
209 IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU IPV6_RECVPATHMTU IPV6_HOPLIMIT
210 - Added a dontfrag option, setting IP_DONTFRAG and on linux
211 also IP_MTU_DISCOVER to IP_PMTUDISC_DO. Note that is ignored if
212 Socket does not export IP_DONTFRAG.
213 - Added the wakeonlan method
214 - Improve argument default handling
215 - Added missing documentation
218 - Reapply tos with ping_udp, when the address is changed.
219 RT #6706 (Torgny.Hofstedt@sevenlevels.se)
220 ditto re-bind to a device.
223 - $ip is now a hash with {addr, addr_in, family} not the addr_in packed IP.
224 - added _resolv replacing inet_aton,
225 _pack_sockaddr_in and _unpack_sockaddr_in replacing sockaddr_in,
226 _inet_ntoa replacing inet_ntoa
227 - Use _isroot helper, with Win32 _IsAdminUser helper.
228 - added several new tests (Steve Peters)
230 2.43 Mon Apr 29 00:23:56 2013 -0300
231 version in perl core since 5.19.9
233 - Handle getprotobyn{ame,umber} not being available
234 2.42 Sun May 26 19:08:46 2013 -0700
235 version in perl core since 5.19.1
239 - wrap long pod lines
240 2.41 Mar 17 09:35 2013
242 - Windows Vista does not appear to support inet_ntop(). It seems to
243 have InetNtop() instead. So, working around by using getnameinfo()
244 and passing in the NI_NUMERICHOST to get an IP address.
246 - Change Net::Ping to use Time::HiRes::time() instead of CORE::time()
247 by default. For most successful cases, CORE::time() returned zero.
248 2.40 Mar 15 11:20 2013
250 - several fixes to tests to stop the black smoke on Win32's
251 and Cygwin since the core updated the module to Test::More.
252 I had planned a later release, but all the black smoke is
254 - fixes to some skips in tests that were still using the
256 - Documentation fix for https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48014.
257 Thanks to Keith Taylor <keith@supanet.net.uk>
258 - Instead of using a hard-coded TOS value, import IP_TOS from
259 Socket. This fixes an outstanding bug on Solaris which uses a
260 different value for IP_TOS in it headers than Linux. I'm assuming
261 other OS's were fixed with this change as well.
264 - added TTL handling for icmp pings to allow traceroute like
265 applications to be built with Net::Ping. Thanks to
266 <rolek@bokxing.nl> for the patch and tests!
269 - replaced SOL_IP with IPPROTO_IP. SOL_IP is not portable and was
271 - added IPPROTO_IP, IP_TOS, IP_TTL, and AF_INET to the list of Socket
273 - removed some hard-coded constants.
274 - converted all calls to inet_ntoa() to inet_ntop() in preparation
275 for further ipv6 updates.
278 - Makefile.PL updated to require Test::More, Time::HiRes, and a
280 - several changes for github hosting
281 - add a .gitignore file
282 - added a .travis.yml file to allow CI testing with changes pushed
284 - replaced the README with a README.md which displays the
285 Travis CI build status on github.
288 2.39 Mar 13 09:25 2013
289 - patch from Matthew Musgrove to resolve RT #45812. Thanks!
290 - pulled in several changes from the Perl core
292 2.36 Jun 08 12:00 2009
293 - release to include a few fixes from the Perl core
295 2.35 Feb 08 14:42 2008
296 - Patch in Perl change #33242 by Nicholas Clark
297 <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/5d6b07c5a4c042580b85248d570ee299fd102a79>
299 2.34 Dec 19 08:51 2007
300 - Release primarily to prevent problems with the Perl core in
301 preparation for the Perl 5.10 release. No real bug fixes, but
302 text fixes are included.
303 - skip test t/510_ping_udp.t on Windows Vista. Thanks to Jan
304 Dubois for the code to test for Vista.
305 - t/510_ping_udp.t should check for a udp echo port, not a tcp
308 2.33 Jul 31 20:15 2007
309 - add new method port_number() rather than asking users to
310 twiddle with the internals of Net::Ping to probe a specific
311 port. This should resolve a few bugs where the documentation
313 - apply patch from bergonz at labs.it. This patch resolves
314 several problems logged regarding using Net::Ping in a multi-
315 threaded program. Thanks so much!
316 <http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17408>
318 2.32 Jul 30 21:30 2007
319 - new co-maintainer Steve Peters
320 - integrate assorted bleadperl fixes from the past four years
321 <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=28348>
323 2.31 Jun 28 14:00 2003
324 - Win32 Compatibility fixes.
325 Patch by mhx-perl@gmx.net (Marcus Holland-Moritz)
326 - Apply bleadperl patch #22204
328 Patch by martin@lorensen.dk (Martin Lorensen)
330 2.30 Apr 18 14:00 2003
331 - Fix select() bug for UDP and ICMP protocols
332 in case packet comes from wrong source or seq.
333 - Allow UDP ping to different IP addresses
334 without instantiating a new object.
335 - Add retrans() method to customize or disable
336 backoff factor for udp pings.
337 Thanks Torgny.Hofstedt@sevenlevels.se
338 - Let ECONNRESET be considered reachable for
339 UDP pings. Now it works for cygwin.
340 Spot by jhi@iki.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
342 2.29 Apr 12 15:00 2003
343 - Implement "double send()" concept for udp pings.
344 See: <http://perlmonks.thepen.com/42898.html>
345 Thanks to rdw @ perlmonks.
346 - Send multiple udp packets in case of loss.
347 - Exponential backoff code swiped from Net::DNS
348 Thanks to mike@fuhr.org (Michael Fuhr).
349 - Also allows to capture udp ECONNREFUSED condition.
350 - Rename tcp_service_check method to service_check.
351 - Allow demo/fping -s to force service check.
352 Idea by ralijani@yahoo.com (REZA Alijani)
353 - Fix return from ping to be compatible with wantarray
354 when the host doesn't even resolve.
355 - Add udp proto test to test suite.
356 - VMS patch from Craig Berry to pre-check echo.
357 - Apply bleadperl patch (change #18904)
358 - Apply bleadperl patch as explained:
359 http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-
360 porters/2003-03/msg00992.html
362 2.28 Jan 23 18:00 2003
363 - No new features. Bug fixes only.
364 - Fixed ICMP_STRUCT to work on Big Endian platforms.
365 Thanks to danb@thelittlemacshop.com (Dan Buettner)
366 for testing on Mac OS X 10.2.3 and many others
367 for testing on Big Endian boxes.
368 - Not do binmode(). Causes more problems than helps.
369 - Perl 5.004 compatibility fixes (Spot by Honza).
371 2.27 Jan 15 23:00 2003
372 - Patch by slebedev@iwl.net (Sergey Lebedev):
373 - 1) Fixed response packet parsing offsets in ping_icmp.
374 - 2) Added icmp_result method.
375 - Patch by radu@netsoft.ro (Radu Greab):
376 - 1) Changed ping_tcp() to use non-blocking connect
377 instead of alarm() interface in order to avoid
378 conflicts with user applications.
379 - 2) Also get rid of all eval {} code in ping_tcp
380 in order to avoid catching SIGALRM trigger and
381 to avoid conflicts with other evals.
382 - 3) Avoid ioctl() syscall for more accurate error
383 detection on non-blocking tcp connects.
384 - 4) Fix fcntl() syntax usage.
385 - Patch by adelton@fi.muni.cz (Honza Pazdziora):
386 - 1) Fix icmp request pack code to be more platform
387 independent regardless of Big/Little Endian.
388 - 2) Use binmode for filehandle in case perl 5.8.0
389 tries to dink with the data stream.
390 - Other changes by Rob Brown:
391 - Fixed ack() failures under certain rare conditions.
392 - Use more appropriate \z instead of $ in regex.
393 - Resolved Cygwin "make test" problems reported by
394 h.m.brand@hccnet.nl (H.Merijn Brand).
395 - Add sending a real ICMP packet in the test suite.
396 - Add Socket to PREREQ_PM (missing on some boxes?)
397 - Adjust syn_forking IPC pipe for fatter Win32 pids.
398 - Better handling of alarm() in test suite for Win32.
399 - Add a DESTROY method to reduce chances of
400 lingering connect-choking children.
402 2.26 Dec 02 12:00 2002
403 - More compatibility fixes.
404 - Thanks for Solaris bug reports:
405 Paul.Gaborit@enstimac.fr (Paul Gaborit)
406 Jost.Krieger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Jost Krieger)
407 - Thanks for Solaris testing box:
408 Gunther.Heintzen@rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Gunther Heintzen)
409 - Solaris ENOTCONN select() for write choke bug.
410 - Thanks for Cygwin bug reports:
411 h.m.brand@hccnet.nl (H.Merijn Brand)
412 - Cygwin "EAGAIN instead of ECONNREFUSED" buttwag.
414 2.25 Nov 19 12:00 2002
415 - Handle condition where O_NONBLOCK tcp connects
416 immediately fail without EINPROGRESS
417 (certain platforms or SMP optimizations).
419 2.24 Oct 21 22:00 2002
420 - Compatibility fixes.
421 - Avoid using 127.1.1.1 and 127.2.2.2 because
422 it breaks on some platforms (Irix).
423 - Handle condition where nonblocking tcp connects
424 immediately connect on some platforms
425 (solaris and freebsd) and to be SMP safer.
426 - Win32 $p->ack( $host ) method should now work.
427 - Add ack( $host ) test cases to test suite.
429 2.23 Oct 18 22:00 2002
430 - Fix ack() fd "each" detection bug.
431 - Add nack() method for OO interface to the
432 reason why the ack() failed.
433 - Fix premature "Timed out" side effect when a
434 different specified ack( $host ) fails.
435 - IO::Socket::INET ephemeral port buttwag
436 hack for the t/450_service.t test.
437 - Documental changes.
439 2.22 Oct 17 16:00 2002
440 - Add $p->tcp_service_check() method to enforce
441 remote tcp service availability checking.
442 Patch by jef@linuxbe.org (Jean-Francois Dive).
443 - Changed default behavior of "syn" protocol to
444 disabled tcp_service_check instead of enabled.
445 - Win32 compatibility changes ("syn" protocol).
446 - Increase timeouts for tests in case client or
447 server network(s) are busy.
449 2.21 Oct 14 12:00 2002
450 - Preserve/restore ALRM settings for tcp mode pings.
451 Spot by d@niel-berlin.de (Daniel Berlin)
452 - Can now select device for udp and icmp protocols.
453 Patch by sarfata@altern.org (Thomas Sarlandie).
454 - Add new "syn" protocol to allow for mass parallel
455 (synchronous) TCP service reachability checking.
456 - Add ack() method to utilize non-blocking connect
457 (SYN/ACK) feature of the "syn" protocol.
458 - Add demo/fping script as a "syn" demonstration.
459 - Compatibility patches for cygwin.
460 Spot by frazee.23@osu.edu (Joseph Frazee)
462 2.20 Jun 20 10:00 2002
463 - Perl 5.8.0 compatibility stuff.
464 Spot by dcd@tc.fluke.com (David Dyck).
465 And patch by jhi@iki.fi (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
466 - Move INSTALL doc into perldoc.
467 - Allow source_verify method to work
468 for icmp protocol as well as udp.
469 Spot by taner@taner.net (Taner Halicioglu)
471 2.19 Jun 03 19:00 2002
472 - Add $p->source_verify method to skip source
473 endpoint verification of udp protocol pings for
474 those remote destinations with multiple interfaces
475 that may have the "reverse telnet" bug.
476 Spot by dcd@tc.fluke.com (David Dyck)
477 - Moved files to more standard locations.
478 - Less common martian used for ping test
481 2.18 May 06 12:00 2002
482 - More RPM spec generalizations.
484 2.17 May 03 18:00 2002
485 - RPM spec generalizations.
486 michael.mclagan@linux.org (Michael McLagan)
487 - Win32 compatibility changes.
488 (Didn't compile on Win32 since v2.11.)
490 2.16 Apr 11 14:00 2002
491 - Documentation changes.
493 - Added README to rpm %doc.
494 - Added neat MakeMaker constants routine.
495 - Buttwag around Makefile.PL warnings:
496 o "the following files are missing in your kit"
497 o "is not a known MakeMaker parameter name"
499 2.15 Apr 06 23:00 2002
500 - Added ABSTRACT info.
501 - Allow for smoother upgrade from
502 from older Net::Ping versions.
503 - Change default protocol from udp to tcp
504 so it will work on most default systems
505 without any arguments to new().
507 2.14 Apr 01 14:00 2002
508 - Added text ip lookup feature.
509 e@arix.com (Erick Calder)
511 2.13 Apr 01 14:00 2002
512 - Added ping time measuring feature.
513 e@arix.com (Erick Calder)
514 - Optionally allow for high resolution
515 precision for timeouts and measuring
516 using the Time::HiRes module (Erick).
518 2.12 Feb 17 19:00 2002
519 - More general error determination for
520 better cross platform consistency and
521 foreign language support.
522 Spotted by arnaud@romeconcept.com
523 - Test changes for VMS (Craig Berry)
525 2.11 Feb 02 12:00 2002
526 - Test changes in case echo port is not available.
527 - Fix 110_icmp_inst.t to use icmp protocol
528 Spotted by craigberry@mac.com (Craig Berry)
530 2.10 Dec 26 12:00 2001
531 - Added bind() function useful for clients with multiple
532 network interfaces performing the ping check thanks to
533 sethb@clarkhill.com (Seth Blumberg).
534 - Execution optimizations for several constants (Seth).
535 - More test changes in case Socket module is not available
538 2.09 Dec 06 19:00 2001
539 - Documental and test changes only.
540 - No functional changes.
542 2.08 Dec 04 13:00 2001
543 - Faster response for Win32 tcp_connect.
544 - Better explanations in test comments.
546 2.07 Nov 28 13:00 2001
547 - Compatibility changes
548 - Works with UNIX and Win32 OS
549 - Works with Perl 5.005 5.6.x 5.7.x 5.8.x
550 - Applied several patches from distro
551 - External protocol added thanks to
552 colinm@cpan.org (Colin McMillen)
553 - Stream protocol added thanks to
554 bronson@trestle.com (Scott Bronson)
556 2.06 Nov 19 12:00 2001
557 - Added Net-Ping.spec for RPM to easily
558 utilize using "rpm -ta Net-Ping*tar.gz"
559 - Moved Copyright section to perldoc
561 2.05 Nov 18 20:00 2001
564 2.04 Nov 16 16:00 2001
565 - Added CHANGES and README to tarball.
566 - No functional changes.
568 2.03 Nov 15 12:00 2001
569 - Portability adjustments to ping_tcp()
570 made by Rob Brown to work with most
573 2.02 Sep 27 12:00 1996
574 - Magic version by Russell Mosemann from CPAN