Stolen from Perl Cookbook, Chapter 17

Problem

You want to write a UDP server.

Solution

First bind to the port the server is to be contacted on. With IO::Socket, this is easily accomplished: 
use IO::Socket;
$server = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalPort => $server_port,
                                Proto     => "udp")
    or die "Couldn't be a udp server on port $server_port : $@\n";

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Then, go into a loop receiving messages: 
while ($him = $server->recv($datagram, $MAX_TO_READ, $flags)) {
    # do something
}

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I haven't written anything that runs as a UDP server. It's all been TCP with what I've done. This may help. I'd recommend taking a look at this whole chapter, if you can.

--Chris

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