[perl #33664] Net::Ping icmp failure with Perl 5.8.6

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This is a bug report for perl from spainj@countryday.net,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.6.


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The following test script, which works with Perl 5.8.4, fails with Perl
5.8.6:

use Net::Ping;
our $p = Net::Ping->new( 'icmp', 1, 1 );
print $p->ping( '10.1.0.1' ) ? 'alive' : 'unreachable';
$p->close();

The error message is: icmp socket error -  at C:\PingTest.pl line 2

The test script works normally when the protocol in line 2 is changed
from 'icmp' to 'udp'.

The problem is consistently reproducible on different machines running
Windows XP SP-2 and Windows Server 2003.

Thanks and Happy New Year.

Jeffry A. Spain, CCNP
Network Administrator
Cincinnati Country Day School
6905 Given Road, Cincinnati, OH 45243-2898, USA
Phone +1 (513) 979-0238; Fax +1 (513) 527-7632 (UTC-5)
spainj@countryday.net

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=high
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.6:

Configured by ActiveState at Mon Dec 13 09:51:32 2004.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 6) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32
-D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DNO_HASH_SEED
-DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO
-DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
    optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64',
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf
-libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'
    libpth=\lib
    libs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib
netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib
odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
    perllibs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib
winspool.lib  comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib
oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib
version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
    gnulibc_version='undef'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug
-opt:ref,icf  -libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'

Locally applied patches:
    ACTIVEPERL_LOCAL_PATCHES_ENTRY
    21540 Fix backward-compatibility issues in if.pm
    23565 Wrong MANIFEST.SKIP

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@INC for perl v5.8.6:
    C:/Perl/lib
    C:/Perl/site/lib
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.6:
    HOME (unset)
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=C:\Python24\.;C:\bin\;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\Program Files\Support
Tools\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA
~1\COMMON~1\Odbc\FILEMA~1;C:\Program Files\SecureCRT\;C:\Program
Files\ActiveState Komodo 3.0\
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL (unset)

• RE: [perl #33664] Net::Ping icmp failure with Perl 5.8.6 by Spain, Jeffry A.
• RE: [perl #33664] Net::Ping icmp failure with Perl 5.8.6 by Spain, Jeffry A.
• [perl #33664] Net::Ping icmp failure with Perl 5.8.6 by Spain, Jeffry A.
• Re: [perl #33664] Net::Ping icmp failure with Perl 5.8.6 by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [perl #33664] Net::Ping icmp failure with Perl 5.8.6 by Steve Peters