bind

See the current Perl documentation for bind.

Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:

bind - binds an address to a socket

bind SOCKET,NAME

Binds a network address to a socket, just as the bind system call does. Returns TRUE if it succeeded, FALSE otherwise. NAME should be a packed address of the appropriate type for the socket. See the examples in Sockets: Client/Server Communication.