I am using some code I found off the internet to monitor a game server. Unfortunately after a certain amount of time the script always gets stuck at one spot. This is the code: 
my $Socket = new IO::Socket::INET (
   Proto => "udp",
   PeerAddr => $Settings{ServerIP},
   PeerPort => $Settings{ServerPort},
);

if ($Socket)
{
   open (ERROR, ">/dev/null") or die $!;
   STDERR->fdopen(\*ERROR, "w") or die $!;
   $Socket->send($Settings{RCONCommand}) or next;
   $SIG{ALRM} = \&Timeout;
   print".";
   eval {
      alarm (4);
      $Socket->recv($Info{Data},16384) or next;
      alarm (0);
      close $Socket;
   }
} 
else 
{
   close $Socket;
}

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It always gets stuck at this line: "$Socket->recv($Info{Data},16384) or next;" which happens when nothing is received back from the server. What do I have to do exactly to get it to time out? I have been working at this for the last 12 hours and it's beyond my ability to get it working. I will use any hack of a solution anyone can come up with, I am really desparate to get this working.

In reply to IO::Socket::INET $Socket->recv won't time out by Grover

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