Perl SCP ERROR(Asking to Continue?) - perl

Question

Here's is what I am doing
my $username = "user";
my $password= "pass";
my $host="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx";
my $scpe = Net::SCP::Expect->new(user => $username,
password => $password,
preserve => 1,
recursive => 1,
verbose=>1,
auto_yes=>1);
$scpe->scp("$file","$host:./drop/drop.txt");
When I run this code there is no error I am using unix box, $file is in my directory and have full permissions, also I have changed the directory to temp in unix box but when somebody else runs this code they get
Problem performing scp: Are you sure
you want to continue connecting
(yes/no)? at scp.pl line 242
I am very confused why is it happening, as this error is not received by me

Answer 1

Short answer:
Raise the timeout_auto value:
my $scpe = Net::SCP::Expect->new(user => $username,
password => $password,
preserve => 1,
recursive => 1,
verbose=>1,
timeout_auto=>10, #For example - 5 should probably be plenty
auto_yes=>1);
Long answer.
The
problem performing scp
is what Net::SCP::Expect prepends to the literal error message it gets from SCP itself, so in this case
Are you sure you want to continue
connecting (yes/no)?
This usually happens because the host SCP is connecting to is not yet known.
You should set auto_yes to 1 if you want to avoid this error as the CPAN Documentation for NET::SCP::Expect explains, but I see you're already doing that.
If that doesn't help, consider raising the timeout_auto value. It defaults to 1 second, but if it takes longer for SCP to pose the 'are you sure' question (because for example the DNS looking of the host takes longer), it might not be enough.