Perl DBI and remote host connections

[David Bandel]

Folks,

I have done a lot of local web <--> local db work without a problem
using Perl DBI.  However, this time, the db is remote.  So I went
through the motions of putting in the necessary dbi parameters:

$dbh = DBI?>connect("dbi:Sybase:database=$database;host=$host;port=$port",
$username, $passwd);

I have all the variables properly defined like so:
my $host=192.168.7.59;
my $port=1433;

Using tcpdump, I get no outgoing connection attempts to the remote
server.  My || die 'message' $! ; tells me no db connection (duh).  Of
course not, there's not even an arp who-has looking for the remote
host.

What have I missed?  Don't believe I need to include all the
networking modules, but I may be wrong.

Any takers?

TIA,

David A. Bandel
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