in reply to Net::IRC does not connect

I had similar problems here, using Net::IRC version 0.7.

After digging around a little in the code, I found that in Net::IRC::Connection, in the connect() sub, Symbol.pm's "gensym" method was used to create an anonymous glob, which then was turned into a socket (the code snippets you posted, plus a few more).

A little above this code, I found a commented section of code, that uses IO::Socket to create a socket. 
$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $self->server,
                              PeerPort => $self->port,
                              Proto    => "tcp",
                    );

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I took this code, commented out the rest, and voila - it worked. I have no idea, why the author of Net::IRC used the gensym() approach and not the IO::Socket way.

Hope this helps.

P.S.: In my firewall logs I found out, that when I used the original Net::IRC, the irctest scripts tried to connect to the IRC-server with a local address of 127.0.0.1 - which of course can't work.

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Re: Re: Net::IRC does not connect
by olly (Scribe) on Jul 31, 2001 at 16:14 UTC
    I am facing the same problem with Net::IRC but I am not entirely sure what to comment out, could you please upload either the file or send it to me at linuxlc@iname.com?

    Thanks in advance

    Imagination is more important then knowledge -Einstein-

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      Sorry that I didn't reply earlier.

      In Net::IRC::Connection, there's a connect() sub, that has this piece of code: 
      #    my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $self->server,
#                    PeerPort => $self->port,
#                    Proto    => "tcp",
#                   );

    $sock = Symbol::gensym();
    unless (socket( $sock, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp')
+ )) {
        carp ("Can't create a new socket: $!");
    $self->error(1);
    return;
    }

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      Uncomment the upper part and comment out the part below, it should work then.
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        Unfortunately Uncommenting the upper part and commenting out the lower does not help me here....
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      Thanks for your reply anyway

      But I made the switch to POE::Component::IRC

      Imagination is more important then knowledge -Einstein-

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