use Net::OpenSSH; use DBI; use Modern::Perl; use Data::Dumper; my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new('me@10.0.1.17'); my ($socket, $pid) = $ssh->open_tunnel('10.0.1.17', '3306'); print Dumper $socket; print Dumper $pid; my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=calendar;mysql_socket=$socket"; my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, 'user', 'pass'); #### $VAR1 = \*{'Net::OpenSSH::$win'}; $VAR1 = 12877; DBI connect('database=calendar;mysql_socket=GLOB(0x20f38e0)','user',...) failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'GLOB(0x20f38e0)' (2) at t/XMLRPC.t line 27. at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/DBI.pm line 685.