Problem binding a socket under solaris

[Steffen Ries]

"Morrow, Paul" <Paul.Morrow at loyaltyworks.com> writes:

>  
> The following simple python script works fine under Windows or Linux,
> but under Solaris 9, it gives the error socket.gaierror: (3,
> 'getaddrinfo failed')
>  
> import socket
>  
> HOST = ''                 # Symbolic name meaning the local host
> PORT = 50007              # Arbitrary non-privileged port
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> s.bind((HOST, PORT))
> s.close()
>  
> Does anyone have any idea what's going on?  I'm running ActiveState's
> 2.2.2 distribution.

I'm not sure what's going on, but I have seen the same problem.

Just define HOST = "0.0.0.0", and it will work on Solaris as well as
Linux and Windows...

/steffen
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