I'm building a list of my ISP's IP addresses.
I want to run a script during WinXP startup that will connect to the internet and log the IP address. The following code only works if I download a page with OpenURL. i.e. the 'new' call doesn't actually connect (or die or return an error).

I'm quite happy with this (it does the job) but it doesn't seem very elegant. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

#!/bin/perl5

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Internet;
use Socket;
use Sys::Hostname;

my $INET = new Win32::Internet()
    or die qq(Cannot connect to Internet);
my @error = $INET->Error;
print "@error\n";

my $URL;
$INET->OpenURL($URL, "http://www.yahoo.com/");

my $host = hostname();
my $addr = inet_ntoa(scalar gethostbyname($host || 'localhost'));  
print "$addr\n";
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