I've built a script to connect to a device via a socket handle through the telnet port, but when I try to assign a variable to the socket handle to store information, my script hangs... 
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(
PeerAddr => '192.168.1.2',
PeerPort => '23',
Proto => 'tcp'
Timeout => 5) or die "Connection failed!";

my $results = <$socket>;

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If I assign the results variable to my socket handle, the script will just hang and not output anything.

What would be the most likely reason for it hanging when assign the handle to a variable? Do you think it could just be network lag at on my company intranet? Assigning the socket handle to a variable works fine with other identical devices on the network. I can't figure out why it won't work with this one specific device.

In reply to Script hangs when assigning variable to socket handle by cspctec

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