Don't know if this is helpful -- I don't have much experience w/ socket level code. I use Cygwin Perl 5.8.6 on Win2KSP4: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Socket::INET;
my $sock;
for ("tcp","udp","icmp","ugly") { # include a bad one
  $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto=>$_) or die "Oops: $@";
  print "$_ sock=$sock\n";
  print ref($sock), $/;
}

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Results: 
$ ./socktest.pl
tcp sock=IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0xa0aa72c)
IO::Socket::INET
udp sock=IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0xa0aa6c0)
IO::Socket::INET
icmp sock=IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0xa0aa78c)
IO::Socket::INET
Oops: IO::Socket::INET: Bad protocol 'ugly' at ./socktest.pl line 8.

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PCS

In reply to Re: io::socket::inet change from 5.8.4 to 5.8.6? by webengr
in thread io::socket::inet change from 5.8.4 to 5.8.6? by smackdab

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