I'm having difficulty connecting to an Oracle database with perl. Sqlplus connects immediately, but DBI takes over 3 minutes to establish a connection. Here's some test code (auth info removed): 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI;

$ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "/usr/local/oracle9";

my $dbhost   = '';
my $database = '';
my $username = '';
my $password = '';

# Build a dsn
my $dsn = "DBI:Oracle:host=$dbhost;sid=$database";

# Create a database handle
print scalar localtime(), " connecting ...\n";
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $username, $password, {
        RaiseError => 0,
        PrintError => 1,
        AutoCommit => 0
}) or die $DBI::errstr;
print scalar localtime(), " done.\n";
$dbh->disconnect();

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Here's the script output: 
Mon Aug  9 10:30:00 2004 connecting ...
Mon Aug  9 10:33:09 2004 done.
The same code works fine on another Oracle database I'm using, so there appears to be something different about this server. Since Sqlplus connects immediately, though, I have to think there's something I need to do differently on the client side.

-Matt

In reply to Oracle hangs at connect by DrManhattan

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