can't get server socket working

Hi,

I'm trying to get a server socket working but for some reason this doesn't allow any connections on 127.0.0.1:1234. What might be wrong here? No errors are being reported:

#include <iostream>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define BUF_SIZE 500
using namespace std;

int getserversocket(int port);

int main (void)
{
    socklen_t peer_addr_len;
    ssize_t nread;
    int sockhandle, s;
    struct sockaddr_storage peer_addr;
    char buf[BUF_SIZE];
    
    cout << "MyServer 1.0" << endl;
    if (sockhandle = getserversocket(1234) >= 0){
        cout << "Socket created!" << endl;
    } else {
        cout << "Could not bind" << endl;
    }
    while(sockhandle >= 0) {
        peer_addr_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage);
        nread = recvfrom(sockhandle, buf, BUF_SIZE, 0,
        (struct sockaddr *) &peer_addr, &peer_addr_len);
        if (nread == -1)
        continue; /* Ignore failed request */

        char host[NI_MAXHOST], service[NI_MAXSERV];

        s = getnameinfo((struct sockaddr *) &peer_addr,
                peer_addr_len, host, NI_MAXHOST,
                service, NI_MAXSERV, NI_NUMERICSERV);
        if (s == 0)
        cout << "Received "<< (long)nread << "bytes from " << host << ":" << service << endl;
        else
        fprintf(stderr, "getnameinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(s));

        if (sendto(sockhandle, buf, nread, 0,
            (struct sockaddr *) &peer_addr,
            peer_addr_len) != nread)
        cout << "Error sending response" << endl;
    }
    
    
}

int getserversocket(int port)
{
    struct addrinfo hints;
    struct addrinfo *result, *rp;
    int addrinfo, sock;
    char port_chr[5];
    sprintf(port_chr,"%d",port);
    
    memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(struct addrinfo));
    hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC; /* Allow IPv4 or IPv6 */
    hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_DGRAM; /* Datagram socket */
    hints.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE; /* For wildcard IP address */
    hints.ai_protocol = 0; /* Any protocol */
    hints.ai_canonname = NULL;
    hints.ai_addr = NULL;
    hints.ai_next = NULL;
    
    addrinfo = getaddrinfo(NULL, port_chr, &hints, &result);
    if (addrinfo != 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo: %s\n", gai_strerror(addrinfo));
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    
    for (rp = result; rp != NULL; rp = rp->ai_next) {
        sock = socket(rp->ai_family, rp->ai_socktype,
                rp->ai_protocol);
        if (sock == -1)
            continue;

        if (bind(sock, rp->ai_addr, rp->ai_addrlen) == 0)
            break; /* Success */

        close(sock);
    }
    freeaddrinfo(result); /* No longer needed */
    
    if (rp == NULL) { /* No address succeeded */
        return -1;
    }
    else
        return sock;
}

Any assistance would be appreciated, Thank you!