How to create a socket so that it can receive the data from any peer IP and port?

sanjay nayak has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks

I have created a UDP socket by using the following code

use IO::Socket::INET;

$MySocket=new IO::Socket::INET->new(
                                                 LocalAddr=>Local_IP,
                                                 LocalPort=>Local_Port
+,
                                                 PeerPort=>Peer_Port,
                                                 Proto=>'UDP',
                                                 PeerAddr=>Peer_IP,
);
$MySocket or die "no socket :$!";
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Is there any way (or any value ) to be assigned in the PeerAddr and Peerport, so that this socket will recv the data from any Peer IP and Peer Port?

Plz suggest me.

Regd's
Sanjay

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Re: How to create a socket so that it can receive the data from any peer IP and port? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 29, 2008 at 09:02 UTC
Get rid of PeerPort and PeerAddr. And LocalAddr for that matter. And you have "new" there twice?! `use IO::Socket::INET; my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto => 'UDP', LocalPort => $port, ) or die("Can't create socket: $!\n");` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How to create a socket so that it can receive the data from any peer IP and port? by sanjay nayak (Sexton) on Dec 29, 2008 at 09:46 UTC
Hi Thanks a lot for your reply. Now it is working fine. Regd's Sanjay	[reply]
Re: How to create a socket so that it can receive the data from any peer IP and port? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 29, 2008 at 08:49 UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol	[reply]
Re: How to create a socket so that it can receive the data from any peer IP and port? by talexb (Chancellor) on Dec 29, 2008 at 08:57 UTC
The short answer is no. The long answer is, sure you can connect to any IP on any port -- how many trillions of connections do you want to make? Perhaps you can explain what your goal is. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]
Re^2: How to create a socket so that it can receive the data from any peer IP and port? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 29, 2008 at 09:05 UTC
He's using UDP which doesn't have the concept of a connection. And like a TCP socket can receive connections from any source on the network, UDP sockets can receive datagrams from any source on the network.	[reply]