socket question

[Philippe C. Martin]

Thanks, it was a bind problem: socket.gethostname() returns 'localhost'
where '' is was was needed.

Regards,

Philippe



On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:02:13 -0800, Kartic wrote:

> 
> Philippe C. Martin wrote:
>> >> My problem is that I cannot connect to my server if the client is
> not on
>> >> the same PC (although I'm doing the above).
> 
> 
> Does the machine running the server code also have a firewall installed
> that blocks access to the server port from outside? That is the only
> possibility I can think of that prevents a non-local client from
> connecting.
> 
> Also, please do a netstat -a on the machine running the server and see
> the IP addresses to which the listening port is bound.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Kartic