I have a feeling that your server is keeping the connection open after emitting the response for the TESTBED command. Thus, the call $t->getlines is terminating only because it is timing out, and with the timeout set to 1500 seconds, it's going to take that long for it to return. You probably will have to develop a test to tell when the server is finished with the TESTBED command and do something like: 
while (defined($_ = $t->getline)) {
  last if (...test for end of response...);
  push(@ok, $_);
}

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In reply to Re: why is it taking so long to read all the lines in net::Telnet by pc88mxer
in thread why is it taking so long to read all the lines in net::Telnet by poolboi

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