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Id: 78563
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Net-MAC-Vendor

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: peter [...] morch.com
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Broken in: 1.18
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Subject: Misleading warning if no network access...
Run the example from the top of the perldoc on a machine without network connection: Use of uninitialized value $html in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Net/MAC/Vendor.pm line 243. Adding a working http_proxy env var makes the warning go away. I suggest the warning text could be more descriptive of the actual problem.
I now check that the network access worked and given a warning there instead of later.