Net::server is an extensible, general perl server engine that combines the good properties from net::daemon, netserver::generic, and net::ftpserver; and borrows various concepts from the apache webserver.

features include:

* single server mode
* inetd server mode
* preforking simple mode (preforksimple)
* preforking managed mode (prefork)
* forking mode
* multiplexing mode using a single process
* multi port accepts on single, preforking, and forking modes
* simultaneous accept/recv on tcp, udp, and unix sockets
* safe signal handling in fork/prefork avoids perl signal trouble
* user customizable hooks
* chroot ability after bind
* change of user and group after bind
* basic allow/deny access control
* customized logging (choose syslog, log_file, or stderr)
* hup able server (clean restarts via sig hup)
* dequeue ability in all fork and prefork modes.
* taint clean
* written in perl
* protection against buffer overflow
* clean process flow
* extensibility