After spending a good bit of time with Google and through trial and error I have found a configuration that appears to support perl using FastCGI on IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0 using MS's FastCGI Extension for IIS6.0. I have tested it out on a limited basis using both IIS 5.1 on WinXp and IIS 6.0 on a virtual...

I have fastcgi working with II6 and Perl on Windows Server 2003. However, my Perl scripts are unable to make network connections (e.g. SMTP or any IO::Socket call). Is there some configuration or security setting I need to be making to enable this? Thanks in advance Horace

My Perl program connects to SQL SERVER via ODBC without any trouble from the comand line and straight CGI, but it fails with the latest fastcgi downloads: DBI connect('XXX5_client_user1','XXX',...) failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]General network error. Check...