Hello all. I'm having trouble with a script I'm running on my linux box. It's an IRC bot that was working when I first wrote it, but now that I've rebooted my computer and tried to run it again, it doesn't seem to work, and it issues my these two errors:

Can't connect to irc.whatever.net:6667! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Net/IRC.pm line 192

Can't call method "add_handler" on unblessed reference at ./bot line 75.

Here is what my code looks like:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use Net::IRC; 
use strict; 

# create the IRC object 
my $irc = new Net::IRC; 

# Create a connection object. You can have more than one "connection" 
+per 
# IRC object, but we'll just be working with one. 
my $conn = $irc->newconn( 
Server => shift || 'irc.whatever.net', 
Port => shift || '6667', 
Nick => 'Bot', 
Ircname => 'Bot', 
Username => 'Bot'); 

# We're going to add this to the conn hash so we know what channel we 
# want to operate in. 
$conn->{channel} = shift || '#mychannel'; 


sub on_connect { 

# shift in our connection object that is passed automatically 
my $conn = shift; 

# when we connect, join our channel and greet it 
$conn->join($conn->{channel}); 
$conn->privmsg($conn->{channel}, 'Hello everyone!'); 
$conn->{connected} = 1; 

} 

sub on_join { 

# get our connection object and the event object, which is passed 
# with this event automatically 
my ($conn, $event) = @_; 

# this is the nick that just joined 
my $nick = $event->{nick}; 
# say hello to the nick in public 

$conn->privmsg($conn->{channel}, "Hello, $nick!"); 

} 

sub on_part { 

# pretty much the same as above 

my ($conn, $event) = @_; 

my $nick = $event->{nick}; 
$conn->privmsg($conn->{channel}, "Goodbye, $nick!"); 
} 

sub on_public { 
my($conn, $event) = @_; 
my $text = $event->{args}[0]; 

if ($text eq "\U$text") { 
if (length $text > 6) { 
my $name_text = $event->{nick}; 
$conn->privmsg($event->{to}[0], "$name_text: No need to yell. Switch t
+o lowercase and be happy. =)"); 
} 
} 

sub on_msg { 
my($conn, $event) = @_; 

$conn->privmsg($event->{nick}, "I, don't appreciate being /msg'd."); 
} 

# add event handlers for join and part events 
$conn->add_handler('join', \&on_join); 
$conn->add_handler('part', \&on_part); 
$conn->add_handler('public', \&on_public); 
$conn->add_handler('msg', \&on_msg); 

# The end of MOTD (message of the day), numbered 376 signifies we've c
+onnect 
$conn->add_handler('376', \&on_connect); 

# start IRC 
$irc->start();
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I entered irc.whatever.net for the server, because I've tried to connect it to multiple servers and it won't connect to any of them. I would think that this is simply a problem with my code, because it usually is =), but this same script was working before i rebooted my computer. Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated, as I'm pulling my hair out over it. =)

Thanks a lot

Edit by myocom: (fixed code tags)