--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use Test::More tests => 1;
+use FindBin qw($Bin);
+use lib "$Bin/lib";
+use MemcachedTest;
+
+my $server = new_memcached();
+my $sock = $server->sock;
+
+print $sock "boguscommand slkdsldkfjsd\r\n";
+is(scalar <$sock>, "ERROR\r\n", "got error back");