#21 Bad arg length for Socket

[Jonathan Smith]

blootbot: current stable version
Linux: Red Hat 9
Error message:

Uncaught exception from user code:
Bad arg length for Socket::pack_sockaddr_in,
length is 0, should be 4 at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Socket.pm
line 373.
Socket::sockaddr_in(0,'undef') called at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Net/IRC/Connection.pm
line 278

Net::IRC::Connection::connect('Net::IRC::Connection=HASH(0x88ffbfc)','Server','irc.freenode.net','Nick','bluto','Port',6667,'LocalAddr','FreeNode',...)
called at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Net/IRC/Connection.pm
line 879

Net::IRC::Connection::new('Net::IRC::Connection','Net::IRC=HASH(0x88ffb48)','Server','irc.freenode.net','Nick','bluto','Port',6667,'LocalAddr',...)
called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Net/IRC.pm
line 192

Net::IRC::newconn('Net::IRC=HASH(0x88ffb48)','Server','irc.freenode.net','Nick','bluto','Port',6667,'LocalAddr','FreeNode',...)
called at ./src/IRC/Irc.pl line 102
main::irc('irc.freenode.net',6667) called at
./src/IRC/Irc.pl line 43
main::ircloop() called at ./blootbot line 55

[Jonathan Smith]

Blootbot Log File

[Tim Riker]

Logged In: YES
user_id=8134

What is ircHost set to? If this is not set, try the
following in your files/blootbot.config

set ircHost 0.0.0.0

It appears that your machine's hostname is not resolving to
a valid address and so blootbot cannot open a connection
from that machine name (and to the irc server...).