Hey, I have a listener program running on my server, hooked into 16 ports: 

12345/tcp
12346/tcp
22345/tcp
22346/tcp
22347/tcp
22348/tcp
22349/tcp
22350/tcp
22351/tcp
22352/tcp
22353/tcp
22354/tcp
22355/tcp
22356/tcp
22357/tcp
22358/tcp

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The Listener program gets executed when an IO::SOCKET::INET request comes in from a Perl script. What I would like to do is the following: 
~Check If a port is available
~~If available, use it
~~If not, try another one of the predefined port (
~~If that fails, then return message

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If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. UPDATE:: This should be a client side script that checks if any of the above ports are available. If so, use that port to send a request. If the port is not available, loop to the next port.

In reply to IO:: SOCKET Check Port, Please Help! by rizcotech

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