The test would not support non-networked environment (I have loopback, but
*no* daemons running).

--- ./lib/Net/Ping/t/190_alarm.t-pre	Tue Mar 11 00:13:06 2003
+++ ./lib/Net/Ping/t/190_alarm.t	Thu Mar 27 00:04:50 2003
@@ -49,6 +64,6 @@ eval {
 ok 1;
 
 # Make sure it died for a good excuse
-ok $@ =~ /alarm works/ or die $@;
+ok $@ =~ /alarm works|Network\s.*unreachable/i or die $@;
 
 alarm 0; # Reset alarm
