use strict; use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (LocalPort => 1200, Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 5, Reuse => 1, ); die "Can't connect: $!\n" unless $sock; while (my $new_sock = $sock->accept()) { my $msg = <$new_sock>; print "client said '$msg'\n"; } close $sock;