I'm not very experienced in socket programming, so I'm on a limb here. Whenever I did do socket programming, I either always used close() on the socket when I was done, or just let the socket go out of scope (letting Perl handle all the intricacies automagically). In your case, the out of scoping could be done by changing this: 
    shutdown ($sock[$count2], 2);
    print "Closed $sock[$count2]\n";

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to: 
    print "Closed $sock[$count2]\n";
    $sock[$count2] = undef;

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Hope this helps.

Liz

In reply to Re: fin ack problems with IO::Socket by liz
in thread fin ack problems with IO::Socket by djbiv

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