#!/usr/bin/perl -w
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use strict;
use Net::Ping;
use IPC::Shareable;
use vars qw/%mxs/;
tie %mxs, 'IPC::Shareable', 'tsmx', { 'create' => 1 };

sub test_mx ($) {
  my $mx = lc(shift);

  # shortcut - immediately return if we've checked in the last five minutes
  return uc ($mxs{$mx}[0]) if (exists ($mxs{$mx}) and $mxs{$mx}[1] > time () - 300);

  # do a TCP ping
  my $p = Net::Ping->new ('tcp', 3);
  $p->{'port_num'} = getservbyname ('smtp', 'tcp');
  my $alive = $p->ping ($mx);
  
  # work out what state we're in and cache it
  $mxs{$mx}[1] = time ();
  if (defined ($alive) and $alive) {
    $mxs{$mx}[0] = 'true';
  } else {
    $mxs{$mx}[0] = 'false';
  }

  # let the program know whether or not the MX is alive
  return $mxs{$mx}[0];  

}

