> What can happen though is that when a server is unreachable, the > program might wait undefinitely until the TCP connection is open and > ignore the timeout for some reason. It is apparently a bug in > IO::Socket earlier than version 1.20 on Linux. There is a simple workaround for that one: route outgoing connections through a proxy, and set a short timeout. So long as the proxy itself is reliably reachable, all timeouts will then work smoothly. > I need to upgrade the module, but I think that we would need to switch > to Perl 5.6 for that, so it would require some tests. I don't *think* Perl 5.6 actually makes any difference here. Unless we're talking about altogether different timeout conditions. -- Nick Kew Site Valet - the essential service for anyone with a website. <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>Received on Monday, 14 May 2001 11:33:50 GMT
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