From: Edward Faulkner <ef@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T06:20:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket Problems...

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:16:43AM +0900, jtxx000 wrote:
> I'm having some trouble getting ruby sockets working... I have two
> scripts: one for the client and one for the server.  If I run the two
> scripts on the same computer with them both set to connect to localhost
> then it works fine, but if I run the scripts on different computers in
> the same LAN with the server set to connect to localhost and the client
> set to connect to the IP address of the server then I get "No
> connection could be made because the target machine actively refused
> it. - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)"  Any ideas?

If you set the server to listen on localhost it will only listen on
the loopback device.  Don't set a listen address and it will listen to
everything:

TCPServer.new('',portnum)

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