"make test" goes through okay with the exception of some complaints about IO::Socket::INET symbol duplicates (see prior reply).

That means your IO::Socket module is out of date. Did you also install all of the prerequisites, ensuring they were up to date?

Another (possibly) interesting note: there isn't a "blocking.al" file within the LWP distribution tarball.

Right, it gets created during the "make all", because it's an autoloaded module.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker