Dear Monks!

I'm pretty new to working with sockets in perl, and this is my first post so be gentle :-D
Looked around for days for a proper solution for my IRC/DCC problem but couldn't find one.

The connection to the server uses a socket with a neverending while loop: 

 
sub connection {
  # Make The Initial Server Connection! #
  $con = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>"$server",
                             PeerPort=>"$port",
                             Proto=>'tcp',
                             Timeout=>'30') || print "Error! $!\n";

while($answer = <$con>) {

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All works fine untill i want to make a DCC connection using another socket: 

$dcc = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>"$2",
                               PeerPort=>"$3",
                               Proto=>'tcp',
                               Timeout=>'30') || print "Error! $!\n";
  print $dcc "Connection Established!\n";
  while ($talk = <$dcc>) {

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The first loop is being blocked?
I only receive input/output from the second loop untill this one is closed again, then the first loop continues....
How can i get a continuous flow from both?
I've read some bits about IO::Socket::Select, and have also been playing with multiple threads, but i prefer the first option... Any help is very appreciated!

In reply to Reading from multiple sockets by marcovk22

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