From: Bob Showalter <bob_showalter@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T04:50:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Difficulty opening a socket

ra88it ra88it wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I write this with some trepidation because it is probably a simple
> problem (I know next to nothing about sockets), but I've tried to find
> the answer on Google and no luck.
> 
> When I do this:
> 
> sock = TCPSocket.new('localhost', 8080)
> 
> I get the the "connection refused" error: Errno::ECONNREFUSED

OK, that means no process is accepting connections on port 8080. What 
are you trying to do?

> 
> I have tried other ports, but anyway I don't think that's the problem.
> (No luck with the others, of course.)

Why are you randomly tring ports? What are you trying to do?

> 
> When I do this:
> 
> sock = TCPSocket.new('localhost', ftp)

Do you mean 'ftp'?

> 
> it works fine.

OK, you have an FTP server running.

> 
> Any idea why this doesn't work (or suggestions how I could troubleshoot)?

"Connection refused" is pretty straighforward; there isn't a process 
accepting connections on the associated port. Or, you may be running tcp 
wrappers or something else that is causing the connection to be refused. 
In any event, it's not a Ruby issue.