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robartes
A quick test with pingecho:
<code>
$ perl -MNet::Ping -MData::Dumper -e 'my $retval=pingecho("");print Dumper(\$retval);'
$VAR1 = \undef;
</code>
shows that if you call pingecho() with an empty host, it returns undef, which should fail your <code>if</code>.
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Are you sure that $dbSrvrUNC contains an empty string for the second ping?
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