use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalHost => '172.16.7.101', LocalPort => '7070', Proto => 'udp', # Listen => 1, Reuse => 1, 8 ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; my $new_sock = $sock->accept(); while(<$new_sock>) { print $_; } close($sock);