"Upgrading Perl" is seldom the right choice, and if you upgrade and nothing changes chances are that you upgraded the wrong thing...

My guess is that something with the network/routing/name resolution on the box is wrong. Did you try connecting to irc manually, through telnet and through a real irc client to debug the connection?

I'm not sure if Perl 5.8.2 is the currently distributed version of Perl in Debian, but be aware that it is a bad idea to change your system Perl, especially for Debian, as many of their utilities rely on Perl and special Debian modules that they don't have on CPAN.

In reply to Re: Weird problems with Net::IRC by Corion
in thread Weird problems with Net::IRC by diagonalfish

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