On 05/03/2014, at 5:42 AM, Gary Greene wrote: > Are the devs for IO::Socket::IP open to adding a patch to make timeout work? to make it into core it must cause minimal problems to existing code, so any such cases are treated seriously, e.g. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/02/msg213008.html
http://search.cpan.org/~pevans/IO-Socket-IP-0.29/lib/IO/Socket/IP.pm#IO::Socket::INET_INCOMPATIBILITES currently only lists Multihomed, e.g. this cropped up with Mojolicious.