socket.connect() hangs in SYN_SENT state.

[bukzor]

On Jul 13, 1:14 am, Miles <semantic... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:23 PM, bukzor <workithar... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm connecting to an apache2 process on the same machine,
> > for testing. When looking at netstat, the socket is in the SYN_SENT
> > state, like this:
>
> > $netstat -a -tcp
> > tcp        0      0 *:www                   *:* LISTEN      7635/apache2
> > tcp        0      1 bukzor:38234            adsl-75-61-84-249.d:www SYN_SENT    9139/python
>
> > Anyone know a general reason this might happen? Even better, a way to
> > fix it?
>
> That socket connection is to a remote machine, not the same one.  Your
> test code works fine for me.  The "hang then crash" (and I'm assuming
> "crash" here means an uncaught exception) just means that your packets
> are being silently ignored by whatever machine you're actually
> attempting to connect to. It's possible that your machine has odd DNS
> settings causing buzkor.hopto.org to resolve to the wrong address.
>
> -Miles

I'm connecting to my machine through the internet, and the resolved
URL of my router is what you're seeing above. If you run the code
above you'll see what I mean.

Thanks tho,
--Buck