Are you running some sort of firewall? I had the same kind of problem when it tried to run the net::irc testscript on openbsd. When trying to run the exact same script on windows, my firewall went off because of Perl wanting to establish an connection, after permitting that it passed this error but produced another :)
Now it says: "Undefined subroutine &Net::IRC::time called at blabla/Perl/site/lib/Net/IRC.pm line 127"
Anyone have a clou?
gr,
Bhodi