Maybe they don’t like the new wallpapers? Did you remember to stock the fridge for them? :-)

Seriously, that description isn’t much help. How should anyone know?! We’ll need more details before anyone will have a fair chance at the right stab.

What do you mean by telnet.pm – is that Net::Telnet or something homegrown? If it’s the standard module, have you turned on the debug output? When do your scripts hang? On connection, or do they not receive the data they expected and are waiting indefinitely? Have you let one run for a long time to see if it’s maybe just stuck waiting for a DNS lookup or something and eventually continues? Those are things I can think of off the top of my head; it might be something else completely.

More information! Otherwise noone can help.

Makeshifts last the longest.