check_ping times out when host is down

[bardahlm]

#139 changed check_ping from using -w timeout to -W timeout. -W, however, sets the timeout for each packet, not the timeout for the entire ping process.

As of now, all checks on hosts that are down report
CRITICAL - Plugin timed out
instead of
PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 100%|rta=500.000000ms;300.000000;500.000000;0.000000 pl=100%;20;25;0

[prakashveni1]

Hi Team,

As i configured all hosts but i could not able to ping my client hist in nagios server, shows CRITICAL - Plugin timed out. could any one assist plz

[box293]

@prakashveni1 can you please create a forum thread here https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7 please, this doesn't seem the area to troubleshoot your problem.

[bardahlm]

Change introduced in #139 should be reverted.

[Rohlik]

Output CRITICAL - Plugin timed out is not informative. This ouput should be change to something like PING CRITICAL - failed to ping host $IP.

[edperry]

Yes we just realized what this was about, Plugin timeout it completely not helpful

[sawolf]

The fix for #139 has been reverted in master. If any of you still have this issue after re-compiling, please let me know and I'll re-open this issue.