I'm trying to do some experiment with Net::IRC, but I have major problems. First of all, look at the beginning of the program I wrote: 
#!/urs/bin/perl

use strict;

use Net::IRC;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTML::Parser;
use Data::Dumper;


my $bot = new Net::IRC;
my $connection = $bot->newconn(Nick => 'HAL',
          Server => 'irc.tin.it',
          Port => '6667',
          Ircname => 'some name...',
          UserName => 'HAL'
          ) || die "Can't connect - $!\n";

# Add handlers here...

$bot->start;

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...omissis...

It's very similar to the beginning of irctest, the script that is provided with Net::IRC package. Despite of this fact, it does not work. irctest neither. They both give to me an error message:

Can't connect to irc.tin.it:6667! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/IRC.pm line 192
Can't connect - Bad file descriptor

So I tried to look into the code of the module. Line 192 of IRC.pm is the line that requests a new instance of Connection: 

my $conn = Net::IRC::Connection->new($self, @_);

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So I looked closer in the code... Here the code that fails (from Connection.pm): 

if (connect( $sock, sockaddr_in($self->port, inet_aton($self->server))
+ )) {
    $self->socket($sock);
} else {
    carp (sprintf "Can't connect to %s:%s!", $self->server, $self->por
+t);
    $self->error(1);
    return;
}

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$self->port and $self->server are well defined, and $sock is created with the socket function, so it seems to me the problem is not in my code. Since I'm convinced that Net::IRC would work (I didn't have problem when I installed it from CPAN), I ask you if it may depend on my system configuration (I use RedHat Linux and Perl 5.6.0) and how could I solve the problem.

In reply to Net::IRC does not connect by larsen

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