From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-07T08:02:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22179] Re: dRuby, Linux and ports

In article <20011006223612.83006.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com>,
chad fowler  <chadfowler@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I don't understand this, given that I can get to the
>> server from the other 
>> machines if apache is running, but not if this
>> simple ruby web server is 
>> running.
>> 
>You have told your server to listen on the loopback
>address (localhost).  Connections from other machines
>don't come in through this interface.  Apache is
>probably listening on all interfaces or specifically
>on your live, net-accessible IP address, so it can
>respond to requests from machines external to yours.
>
>The reason you're not getting a response when you try
>to access it from another machine is that there is
>literally nothing listening on that port for that
>interface.

Thanks for the explanation. Now I understand what was going on.
Why did using 'localhost' work on Windows (I probably don't need to even 
ask that question :)

Phil