A google for that error suggests that the cause is: "The DNS is not properly configured on the workstation or there are problems with the DNS server".

Whether that will help him track down his problem I don't know, but it tends to strongly indicate that it is a problem local to his configuration or network rather than anything that you can fix in the script.

It's also hard to see how the snippet you posted would be causing a DNS lookup? How sure are you that it is that part of the code that is failing?

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In reply to Re: IO::Socket::INET fails in rare cases on Windows by BrowserUk
in thread IO::Socket::INET fails in rare cases on Windows by Anonymous Monk

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