Subject: [LON-CAPA-dev] New lonc - I wonder ...

From: Gerd Kortemeyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:21:33 -0500

Hi,

There is a new lonc that first tests if a remote machine answers to
"ping" before trying to open a socket. This is supposed to cut down the
number of lonc children senselessly hanging around. Currently, I
consider this lonc "experimental", and it will give definitely give you
grief with way-outdated versions of Net::Ping.

- Gerd.