Re: Problems on W2K which don't appear on Linux

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:50:17PM +0000, Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on W2K I'm using the perk which is contained in the cygwin installation.

Oh, I am glad W2K has some perks :)

> 
> On linux it works well but on W2K it gives me the error
> 
> IO::Socket::INET: Timeout at ./test line 35.
> 
> It's not a problem of the value of the timeout I've set it much higher
> with the same result.

this is likely a problem with IO::Socket. Just try

  my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
               PeerAddr => $host,
               PeerPort => 389,
               Proto    => 'tcp',
               Timeout  => 120
             ) or die "$@: $!";

Graham.