Re: Problem with instruction Net::LDAP->new

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

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:02:48PM +0100, Nicolas CHRISTOPHE wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> With $host being an unreachable IP address, the following instruction does
> 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 waiting
> for an answer very long time
> 
> $ldap = Net::LDAP->new($host, timeout => 1);
> 
> Configuration : Linux RedHat, perl 5.005_03 for i386 linux

What version of IO do you have installed ? The latest on CPAN is
1.20, if you don't have that I suggest you install it.

Graham.