Perl IO::Socket name resolution issues

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

gjohnson5 wrote:
>
>
> Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> I'm seeing weird problems with IO::Socket in the syslog:
>>
>> Jun  3 01:46:20 nexus ddclient[2201]: WARNING:  cannot connect to
>> checkip.dyndns.org:80 socket: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname
>> 'checkip.dyndns.org'
>>
>>
>
> It's a web page that displays your ip address.  Just enter the url in a web
> browser
> And it looks like it should work

It should. But it apparently doesn't which seems to indicate a problem in 
IO::Socket.

Regards,
   Dennis