but I'm guessing that the problem lies in some windows-specific section of the perl source that is outside of 'cpan/Socket' - more likely in the 'win32' folder of the perl source.

Hi. grep says no. https://perl5.git.perl.org/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ws2tcpip/nf-ws2tcpip-getaddrinfo

so many results here its worth checking if all these other versions work https://metacpan.org/search?p=1&q=getaddrinfo&size=500

for ppsimple https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32::Ldd

grep.cpan.me is gone, these arent replacements- ick site:metacpan.org getaddrinfo site:metacpan.org getaddrinfo

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