Installing libwww error

I finally got FreeBSD 6.0 installed and talking to the net. When I run
"perl Makefile.PL" to install the libwww-per;-5.805 library, it give me
an error which sounds like I have something misconfigured:

"Can't connect: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':56245'

I suspect this is from me not entering a host name earlier in the
installation (I suspect the hostname should be in front of the colon),
it is now I believe Amnesiac. I have gone back into the setup by going
to /usr/sbin/sysinstall, but I cannot seem to find where to correct this
configuration error and enter the hostname.

Is that the right place to be trying to correct the hostname? I also
looked at the various host(s) files in the /etc but did not see anywhere
to put it in there either.

Can someone point me in the right direction, as soon as I have the perl
socket library talking over the net, I will be done with the FreeBSD
installation.

Thanks,

Marshall

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