Hi, I have a small code to accept connections on port 8080. This is just part of a tool i am creating. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Socket::INET;


my $sock = '';

startListening();


sub startListening(){


$sock = new IO::Socket::INET( LocalPort => '8080',Porto => 'tcp',Liste
+n => '1', Reuse => '1') 
or die "Could not create socket \n" unless $sock;
my $new_sock  = $sock->accept() or die "Lost connection\n";


if ($new_sock){

    print "Received incoming connection on port \n";
    #close ($new_sock);
    close($sock);
    exit;
}

}

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But when i try to telnet to port 8080 it does not work. I have SSH running on the same machine and telnet to port 22 works fine. If i try to telnet port 8080 from local host it works. Any suggestions ?

In reply to Socket not accepting connection by saeen

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