Connection time out with net::irc

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

Hi There.
When I use net::irc, I make a connection and if the connection takes longer than 1 second to establish, the perl script says unable to connect to server. Does anyone know how to overide this behavior?
Thanks

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Re: Connection time out with net::irc by zakzebrowski (Curate) on Sep 19, 2001 at 07:34 UTC
Check to see your dns is set up correctly, if it isn't then it won't work. ---- Zak	[reply]
Re: Connection time out with net::irc by s0ttle (Scribe) on Sep 19, 2001 at 12:15 UTC
(If domain name resolution (DNS) is the problem). Try using the numerical ip address for the IRC server and see if that works. - yo tengo mas que aprender	[reply]
Re: Connection time out with net::irc by zakzebrowski (Curate) on Sep 21, 2001 at 19:02 UTC
Also, if you are on ulnix, you might have to comment out in conneciton.pm the "bind" lines of code. ---- Zak	[reply]