I'm trying to write a package that does a non-blocking multi-homed connect using IO::Socket::INET. As I understand it, IO::Socket::INET cannot connect to a multi-homed host when set to non-blocking mode:

Although it is not illegal, the use of "MultiHomed" on a socket
which is in non-blocking mode is of little use. This is because
the first connect will never fail with a timeout as the connect
call will not block.

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The package holds a copy of the socket and a list of the multi-homed IP addresses. If the connection attempt timesout or is refused, I try the next IP in the list.

The problem I'm having is that I can't reuse the socket I created after the first connect call. When I create a new IO::Socket::INET object within the package, I get the error "can't call method "foo" on an unblessed reference".

Is there a way to reuse the IO::Socket::INET object?

Can I associate a new IO::Socket::INET object to the class until all the IP addresses are exausted, or the connection attempt succeeds. How can I do this without unblessing?

In reply to Multihoming a non-blocking IO::Socket::INET by vancetech

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