From: sean nakasone <seannakasone@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T06:20:06+09:00
Subject: TCPSocket.new 'Bad file descriptor'


Here's my very simple script to open a tcp port and write to it.

require 'socket'
s=TCPSocket.new("173.30.6.16", 9990)
s.write("Hello\n")
s.close

The TCPSocket.new returns with:

cli.rb:3:in `initialize': Bad file descriptor - connect(2) (Errno::EBADF)
         from cli.rb:3:in `new'
         from cli.rb:3


The IP address is the PC that I'm running the script from.  I'm stumped
because if I replace "173.30.6.16" with "localhost" or "127.0.0.1", it 
works.  Any suggestions?  I guess it could be a network security issue, 
but how can I get around this?