diff --git a/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/Makefile b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ff7d9f3ddd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.1.1.1 2009/01/01 14:42:30 bluhm Exp $
+
+COMMENT =		object interface for AF_INET and AF_INET6 domain sockets
+
+DISTNAME =		IO-Socket-INET6-2.56
+
+CATEGORIES =		net
+
+MAINTAINER =		Alexander Bluhm <bluhm@openbsd.org>
+
+# perl
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM =	Yes
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP =	Yes
+PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM =Yes
+PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP =	Yes
+
+MODULES =		cpan
+BUILD_DEPENDS =		${RUN_DEPENDS}
+RUN_DEPENDS =		:p5-Socket6->=0.12:net/p5-Socket6
+REGRESS_DEPENDS =	::devel/p5-Test-Pod-Coverage ::devel/p5-Test-Pod
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/distinfo b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..da6b97210bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+MD5 (IO-Socket-INET6-2.56.tar.gz) = JOMddXJHiT9ReOaQvpsAbw==
+RMD160 (IO-Socket-INET6-2.56.tar.gz) = j1w+CVl/ADR19Lv6cJs5gAV+Xfg=
+SHA1 (IO-Socket-INET6-2.56.tar.gz) = kOD31IEnjL6DfhS6yJ3t3LkLW6s=
+SHA256 (IO-Socket-INET6-2.56.tar.gz) = DgavZcRhG4vWnZ+cKSLig0kEV8Tp3sH3N8aCmo1E5pA=
+SIZE (IO-Socket-INET6-2.56.tar.gz) = 12282
diff --git a/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/patches/patch-t_pod-coverage_t b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/patches/patch-t_pod-coverage_t
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fa776f1bf77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/patches/patch-t_pod-coverage_t
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-t_pod-coverage_t,v 1.1.1.1 2009/01/01 14:42:30 bluhm Exp $
+--- t/pod-coverage.t.orig	Mon Oct  6 15:36:55 2008
++++ t/pod-coverage.t	Fri Nov 21 21:19:20 2008
+@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
+ use Test::More;
+ eval "use Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04";
+ plan skip_all => "Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04 required for testing POD coverage" if $@;
++plan skip_all => "Coverage for IO::Socket::INET6 is 13.8%, with 100 naked subroutines";
+ all_pod_coverage_ok();
diff --git a/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/pkg/DESCR b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/pkg/DESCR
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..94c3fc75786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/pkg/DESCR
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+IO::Socket::INET6 provides an object interface to creating and using
+sockets in either AF_INET or AF_INET6 domains. It is built upon the
+IO::Socket interface and inherits all the methods defined by IO::Socket.
diff --git a/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/pkg/PLIST b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/pkg/PLIST
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e91c6d20fb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6/pkg/PLIST
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.1.1.1 2009/01/01 14:42:30 bluhm Exp $
+${P5SITE}/IO/
+${P5SITE}/IO/Socket/
+${P5SITE}/IO/Socket/INET6.pm
+@man man/man3p/IO::Socket::INET6.3p