The Perl upgrade was part of my switch to Debian Testing. Apt-get installed the new perl 5.8.2 itself, so it probably knew what it was doing. Probably. I know name resolution works because I tried connecting with irssi and it works fine, same with telnet. There's also an eggdrop running on the machine that's had no problems connecting and staying on the same server. As for POE, I may change over, one of my friends has been trying to get me to switch anyway. But.. any other ideas before I go rewrite it? :)