sockaddr_family, length is 0, should be at least 2

vshah has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Getting error in perl version 5.16.3 wpnInterfaceSoapServer25215:000 catch(): wpnSoapForkingDaemon::clientSoapRequestHandler(): Bad arg length for Socket::sockaddr_family, length is 0, should be at least 2 at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/IO/So cket/IP.pm line 694 Please help

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Re: sockaddr_family, length is 0, should be at least 2 by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 16, 2020 at 12:19 UTC
Most likely, the address you are getting in whatever HTTP / SOAP server you are running is invalid. Somebody calls `sockaddr_family` on an address that is likely `undef`, most likely because some code above it failed to properly allocate a host name.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: sockaddr_family, length is 0, should be at least 2 by vshah (Initiate) on Jan 17, 2020 at 13:51 UTC
Thank you !! When I did nslookup it gave me different hostname, if I did nslookup <ip> then it gave me correct hostname. So might be DNS is not configured correctly.	[reply]