my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto => 'tcp', LocalPort => $serverport, Listen => SOMAXCONN, Reuse => 1); die "can't setup server" unless $server; my $remotehost; &writelog("$date: INFO: Server $0 started accepting clients connections"); while ($client = $server->accept()) { $client->autoflush(1); $remotehost = $client->peeraddr; } But i get this in the log 01/11/2005/ 14:42: INFO: New client connection from Μφ