sub send_data { my ($self, $connection) = @_; my $address = eval{$$connection->peerhost}; my $port = eval{$$connection->peerport}; $$connection->close; my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto => 'tcp', PeerAddr => $address, PeerPort => $port ) or Carp::confess $@; # <- this used to be die $! $sock->autoflush(1); syswrite($sock, $self->{data}, length($self->{data})); $sock->close; } #### IO::Socket::INET: Timeout at Shared.pm line 251 Shared::Local::send_data('HASH(0x812e004)', 'SCALAR(0x821e260)') called at Shared.pm line 233 Shared::Local::new('Shared::Local', 'name', 'new_shared', 'accept', 'ARRAY(0x812decc)') called at test.pl line 5 at Shared.pm line 394 Shared::Retriever::retrieve('Shared::Retriever=HASH(0x80f7acc)', 'Shared::Local=HASH(0x812e004)') called at test.pl line 12 [me@myhost me]$