From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2007-10-10T14:24:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple socket server not working?



On Oct 9, 10:54 pm, Stephen Ware <sgw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any idea why this code...
>
> require 'socket'
> server = TCPServer.new('127.0.0.1', 5056)
> socket = server.accept
> socket.puts('it works')
> socket.flush
>
> doesn't work on my Unix server?  If I run it in the background, I can
> connect from the same machine using telnet and it works fine... but I
> cannot connect from any remote machines.
>
> What am I missing?

A firewall perhaps?  Does it work locally but not from a remote
machine?  The code worked fine for me totally locally, so I think the
problem is network-related.
-Mat