Why bother Google when your program can timeout while connecting to the real destination?
This has also the advantage that the protocol used for testing is the same as later on for
communication - which can be a good idea in the presence of firewalls.
More specific advice might be possible if you tell us more about the protocol/application.
A Super Search for connection timeout delivers some more suggestions.
Update:
To check for presence of a server that is not confused if someone
is ringing off without saying a word...
sub check_port {
my $host = shift; # hostname or hostname:port
my $timeoutseconds = shift || 1;
my $proto = "tcp";
my $handle = IO::Socket::INET->new('PeerAddr'=>$host,'Timeout'=>$tim
+eoutseconds, 'Proto'=>$proto);
if (defined $handle && $handle) {
$handle->close();
return 1; # port in use
}
return 0; # not reachable or timeout
}
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