Problem with instruction Net::LDAP->new

[Nicolas C. <nch...@co...>]

Hi all,

With $host being an unreachable IP address, the following instruction d=
oes
not take into account the "timeout" option. I.e., I would like to pass =
to
the next line after 1 second delay, instead of it the program is waitin=
g
for an answer very long time

$ldap =3D Net::LDAP->new($host, timeout =3D> 1);

Configuration : Linux RedHat, perl 5.005_03 for i386 linux

Thanks a lot,
Nicolas
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