Not very easy to implement in the current implementation as the return text and state are static in netutils.c
``` /* initialize alarm signal handling, set socket timeout, start timer */ (void) signal (SIGALRM, socket_timeout_alarm_handler); (void) alarm (socket_timeout); ``` So we could extend netutils.c to support return text -- Reply to this email on GitHub: https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/issues/1116#issuecomment-146444614