Re^2: To know the existence of an ip address

[JSchmitz]

Sounds like a job for nmap then just grep for the host/ip - I know that's a nasty way to go about it though -sL (list scan) Also check out the Nmap::Parser module here http://search.cpan.org/~apersaud/Nmap-Parser/

You may be getting a call from the security team at your company after running lol