--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use Test::More tests => 4;
+use FindBin qw($Bin);
+use lib "$Bin/lib";
+use MemcachedTest;
+
+my $server = new_memcached();
+my $sock = $server->sock;
+
+print $sock "set issue70 0 0 0\r\n\r\n";
+is (scalar <$sock>, "STORED\r\n", "stored issue70");
+
+print $sock "set issue70 0 0 -1\r\n";
+is (scalar <$sock>, "CLIENT_ERROR bad command line format\r\n");
+
+print $sock "set issue70 0 0 4294967295\r\n";
+is (scalar <$sock>, "CLIENT_ERROR bad command line format\r\n");
+
+print $sock "set issue70 0 0 2147483647\r\nscoobyscoobydoo";
+is (scalar <$sock>, "CLIENT_ERROR bad command line format\r\n");