RE: Blocking ports

2004-12-08 Thread John Serink
Just open a single client server on the ports you don't what anyone to use You'll have to do it in a separate thread however and that could start to consume resources...else it will block waiting for an accept. Or, you could create server using the IO::Select method and wait for connects but

Re: Blocking ports

2004-12-08 Thread $Bill Luebkert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a network problem. > > how do i block a port(s) programmically in perl, making the port unusable by > other software, requiring that port, while the perl script is running. > > my platform is windows, so the solution must be windows compatible. I w