Looking for example of how to keep an FTP processing running if the Ip Address is down or unavailable

I have a polling process that runs 24x7 ( internal site ) and for the
most part has no problems except that they shutdown the the internal
site every three or four weeks and my process then dies.

I have a simple setup:

$MyFtp = Net::FTP->new($GlblInfo{ipaddr}, Debug => 1);

$MyFtp->login($GlblInfo{logon},$GlblInfo{pw});

Yes. There is no checking on the new and what happens is that
new fails and then when it tries the login, I get a failure for the
method login. So how do I surround the new so that if it fails, I can
go to sleep for say five minutes and then try again until I hit some
limit or timeframe?

Any thoughts or insights would be gratly appreciated.

Wags ;)
David R Wagner
Senior Programmer Analyst
FedEx Freight
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