Re: Re: •Re: LWP::UserAgent connection problem as CGI

[Plankton]

I don't merlyn meant for you to ping th IP address but to test the Domain Name Server configuration by doing ping <hostname> as oppossed to ping <IP address>.

[bassplayer]

Yes, I know. Sorry that I was unclear. I pinged www.yahoo.com just as merlyn suggested. The response was:

64 bytes from 66.94.230.33: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=9.800 ms
64 bytes from 66.94.230.33: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=10.008 ms

That is why I said that I received packets back from the IP address. Thanks.

[merlyn]

And you did that from the command line on the CGI host, correct? If that's the case, I don't know why LWP is having trouble looking up the host name.

[bassplayer]

Yes, it was definitely on the CGI host. DNS was the first thing I thought of, especially since there were some DNS issues a few weeks back. But this script works from command line, whether as root or as apache user, and fails as a CGI. Frustrating.

bassplayer bangs his head on his desk (again)...