Your problem might be that you're trying to talk on both sockets at the same time. In that case you will need to look into a multitasking environment like threads or POE.

Here's the sockets code: SERVER

socket(PEERS, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $protocol) or die "socket() failed
+: $!";
setsockopt(PEERS,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,1)    or die "Can't set SO_RE
+USADDR: $!" ;
my $my_peer_addr = sockaddr_in($peerport,INADDR_ANY);
bind(PEERS,$my_peer_addr)    or die "bind() failed: $!";
listen(PEERS,SOMAXCONN) or die "listen() failed: $!";
warn "Waiting for Peer Servers on $peerport\n";
#########################################
# SET UP FILE TRANSFER SOCKET
#########################################
socket(SERVER, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $protocol) or die "socket() faile
+d: $!";
setsockopt(SERVER,SOL_SOCKET,SO_REUSEADDR,1)    or die "Can't set SO_R
+EUSADDR: $!" ;
my $my_addr = sockaddr_in($port,INADDR_ANY);
bind(SERVER,$my_addr)    or die "bind() failed: $!";
listen(SERVER,SOMAXCONN) or die "listen() failed: $!";
warn "Waiting for Files on $port\n";
}


while (1) {

while(my $remote_peer_addr = accept(PEERREG,PEERS)){
my ($peerport,$peeraddr) = sockaddr_in($remote_peer_addr);
PEERREG->autoflush(1);
my $newpeer = inet_ntoa($peeraddr);
push (@servers, $newpeer);
$servers = @servers;
warn "We have $servers servers\n";
shutdown (PEERREG,2);
}

while (my $remote_addr = accept(FILESESSION,SERVER)){
my ($port,$hisaddr) = sockaddr_in($remote_addr);
my $newclient = inet_ntoa($hisaddr);
warn "Connection from $newclient\n";
FILESESSION->autoflush(1);
my $length_of_randomstring=8;
my @chars=('a'..'z','A'..'Z','0'..'9','_');
my $random_string = "";
foreach (1..$length_of_randomstring) 
{$random_string.=$chars[rand @chars];}

$response = $random_string."\n";
print FILESESSION $response;

open NEWFILE, ">splits/$random_string";
binmode(NEWFILE);
print NEWFILE <FILESESSION>;
close(NEWFILE);
shutdown(FILESESSION,2);
} 

}
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I just gotta wonder now, where are you reading that you end up using Socket instead of IO::Socket, or even higher-level things like POE? And that truly is a serious question... we need to update those doc locations so that people don't stray down the low-level junk.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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