I had similar problem using IO::Socket, my script would just hang without finishing. Than sometime, when maintenance changes cables or hubs, my script would go on and on without finishing. If you are using sockets to communicate to other machine, to set the $socket->timeout variable wont help at all! I already tried it and agoth explained me that timeout ain't implemented yet for sockets that send or receve .. check it here. But there is one thing that you can do, that someone told me, but I forgot who (may be it was agoth again). You could ping by either using backslash quotes `ping -c1 serveraddress` or using Net::Ping, and check if server works before every data is sent!

Update: or to check if socket that listens on server really listen! It depends on how you implemented the communication between sockets.

In reply to Re: Program hangs by Alex the Serb
in thread Program hangs by Stegalex

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