According to the IO::Socket::INET manual, MultiHomed set to ON will "Try all adresses for multi-homed hosts".

I have one example here where a host is multihomed, and 5 out of 6 addresses refuse connections to the web port. The socket connection this module builds does not try all the hosts for a connection as demonstrated in my test script. Am I doing something wrong in trying to use this option? 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use IO::Socket::INET;

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new( 
    Proto        => 'tcp',
    MultiHomed    => 1,
    Blocking    => 1,
    Type        => SOCK_STREAM,
);

$sock->connect( 80, inet_aton('alistapart.com') );

if( defined $sock && $sock->connected ) {
    $sock->send(qq{GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n});
    $sock->recv($buffer, 1024);
    print $buffer . "\n";
} else {
    print "$!\n";
}

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In reply to Using MultiHomed not working in IO::Socket::INET? by vancetech

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