Never been in this spot before...Need connectivity to a remote database, but port 3306 is blocked from remote machines (firewall). You can SSH tunnel your way around the firewall, so I'm giving that a stab in pure Perl. But this dependency / test failure tree is scary. :)
http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Net::SSH::Perl;perl=latest Maybe I'll try stunnel while CPAN runs... :) j