$sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
                  PeerAddr => $_[0],
    PeerPort => $_[1],
    Proto => 'tcp',
    Timeout => 2
    );

my $timeout = ${*$sock}{'io_socket_timeout'};
#       my $before = time() if $timeout;

        undef $@;
        if ($sock->connect(pack_sockaddr_in($rport, $raddr))) {
#            ${*$sock}{'io_socket_timeout'} = $timeout;
            return $sock;
        }

        return _error($sock, $!, $@ || "Timeout")
            unless @raddr;

#       if ($timeout) {
#           my $new_timeout = $timeout - (time() - $before);
#           return _error($sock,
#                         (exists(&Errno::ETIMEDOUT) ? Errno::ETIMEDOUT() : $EINVAL),
#                         "Timeout") if $new_timeout <= 0;
#           ${*$sock}{'io_socket_timeout'} = $new_timeout;
#        }

eval {
  local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die 'Timed Out'; };
  alarm 3;
  my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    PeerAddr => inet_ntoa( gethostbyname($host) ),
    PeerPort => 'whois',
    Proto => 'tcp',
    ## timeout => ,
  );
  $sock->autoflush;
  print $sock "$qry1512";
  undef $/; $data = <$sock>; $/ = "n";
  alarm 0;
};
alarm 0; # race condition protection
return "Error: timeout." if ( $@ && $@ =~ /Timed Out/ );
return "Error: Eval corrupted: $@" if $@;

# Impatient Client
use IO::Socket::INET;

$sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
    PeerAddr => "localhost",
    PeerPort => "10007",
    Proto => 'tcp',
    Timeout => 2,
    );

print <$sock>;

close($sock);


# SlowServer
use IO::Socket::INET;

$sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
    LocalAddr => "localhost",
    LocalPort => "10007",
    Proto => 'tcp',
    Listen => 1,
    Reuse => 1,
    );

$newsock = $sock->accept();
sleep 5;

#while (<$newsock>) {
#    print $_;
#}
print $newsock "Some Stuff";
close($newsock);
close($sock);

pti@pti-laptop:~/playpen$ perl server.pl&
[1] 9130
pti@pti-laptop:~/playpen$ time perl test.pl
Some Stuff[1]+  Done                    perl server.pl

real    0m5.039s
user    0m0.050s
sys     0m0.030s

use IO::Socket::INET;
eval {
  local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die 'Timed Out'; };
  alarm 2;
  $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
    PeerAddr => "localhost",
    PeerPort => "10007",
    Proto => 'tcp',
    Timeout => 2,
    );

  print <$sock>;

  close($sock);
  alarm 0;
};
alarm 0; # race condition protection
print "Error: timeout." if ( $@ && $@ =~ /Timed Out/ );
print "Error: Eval corrupted: $@" if $@;

pti@pti-laptop:~/playpen$ perl server.pl&
[1] 9175
pti@pti-laptop:~/playpen$ time perl test2.pl
Error: timeout.Error: Eval corrupted: Timed Out at test2.pl line 3.

real    0m2.040s
user    0m0.020s
sys         0m0.010s