diff --git a/pkgs/development/perl-modules/lwp-test-with-localhost.patch b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/lwp-test-with-localhost.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..25b96796d234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/perl-modules/lwp-test-with-localhost.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+From 2d7a479b39bb20a0d61f067ba6c2df92117fcb8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Petr=20P=C3=ADsa=C5=99?= <ppisar@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:45:38 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Connect to localhost instead of hostname
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+The hostname does not have to be resolvable nor reachable. It's just
+a machine name.
+
+Signed-off-by: Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
+---
+ t/local/http.t   | 2 +-
+ t/robot/ua-get.t | 2 +-
+ t/robot/ua.t     | 2 +-
+ talk-to-ourself  | 3 +--
+ 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/t/local/http.t b/t/local/http.t
+index 779cc21..534b4c8 100644
+--- a/t/local/http.t
++++ b/t/local/http.t
+@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ if ($D eq 'daemon') {
+ 
+     require HTTP::Daemon;
+ 
+-    my $d = HTTP::Daemon->new(Timeout => 10);
++    my $d = HTTP::Daemon->new(Timeout => 10, LocalAddr => 'localhost');
+ 
+     print "Please to meet you at: <URL:", $d->url, ">\n";
+     open(STDOUT, $^O eq 'VMS'? ">nl: " : ">/dev/null");
+diff --git a/t/robot/ua-get.t b/t/robot/ua-get.t
+index 5754c4b..bf24589 100644
+--- a/t/robot/ua-get.t
++++ b/t/robot/ua-get.t
+@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ if ($D eq 'daemon') {
+ 
+     require HTTP::Daemon;
+ 
+-    my $d = new HTTP::Daemon Timeout => 10;
++    my $d = new HTTP::Daemon Timeout => 10, LocalAddr => 'localhost';
+ 
+     print "Please to meet you at: <URL:", $d->url, ">\n";
+     open(STDOUT, $^O eq 'MSWin32' ?  ">nul" : $^O eq 'VMS' ? ">NL:"  : ">/dev/null");
+diff --git a/t/robot/ua.t b/t/robot/ua.t
+index 21ad5c8..11fafa8 100644
+--- a/t/robot/ua.t
++++ b/t/robot/ua.t
+@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ if ($D eq 'daemon') {
+ 
+     require HTTP::Daemon;
+ 
+-    my $d = new HTTP::Daemon Timeout => 10;
++    my $d = new HTTP::Daemon Timeout => 10, LocalAddr => 'localhost';
+ 
+     print "Please to meet you at: <URL:", $d->url, ">\n";
+     open(STDOUT, $^O eq 'MSWin32' ?  ">nul" : $^O eq 'VMS' ? ">NL:"  : ">/dev/null");
+diff --git a/talk-to-ourself b/talk-to-ourself
+index 6c0257a..b4acda2 100644
+--- a/talk-to-ourself
++++ b/talk-to-ourself
+@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ require IO::Socket;
+ 
+ if (@ARGV >= 2 && $ARGV[0] eq "--port") {
+     my $port = $ARGV[1];
+-    require Sys::Hostname;
+-    my $host = Sys::Hostname::hostname();
++    my $host = 'localhost';
+     if (my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => "$host:$port", Timeout => 5)) {
+ 	require IO::Select;
+ 	if (IO::Select->new($socket)->can_read(1)) {
+-- 
+1.9.0
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 72b033db6203..ef2651156186 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -5384,8 +5384,8 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
       url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/${name}.tar.gz";
       sha256 = "1cpqjl59viw50bnbdyn8xzrwzg7g54b2rszw0fifacqrppp17gaz";
     };
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ EncodeLocale FileListing HTMLParser HTTPCookies HTTPDaemon HTTPDate HTTPNegotiate HTTPMessage LWPMediaTypes NetHTTP URI WWWRobotRules ];
-    doCheck = false; # tries to start a daemon
+    patches = [ ../development/perl-modules/lwp-test-with-localhost.patch ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ EncodeLocale FileListing HTMLParser HTTPCookies HTTPDaemon HTTPDate HTTPMessage HTTPNegotiate LWPMediaTypes NetHTTP URI WWWRobotRules ];
     meta = {
       description = "The World-Wide Web library for Perl";
       license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];