socket.connect() hangs in SYN_SENT state.

[bukzor]

On Jul 13, 1:08 pm, Miles <semantic... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:32 PM, bukzor <workithar... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > 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.
>
> I did run the code, and as I said, it works fine.  Your description of
> the setup is not consistent. The netstat output unambiguously states
> that a Python script on "buzkor" is attempting to open a connection to
> the HTTP port on the "adsl" machine (and failing because "adsl" is not
> responding).  The problem here is not Python; you seem to be confused
> about which machine is connecting to which.
>
> -Miles


The problem only manifests about 1 in 20 runs. Below there's code for
a client that shows the problem 100% of the time.

The two URL's that I seem to be "confused" about point to the same IP.
Maybe this will make it clear:

PING bukzor.hopto.org (75.61.84.249) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from adsl-75-61-84-249.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net
(75.61.84.249): icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.68 ms
64 bytes from adsl-75-61-84-249.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net
(75.61.84.249): icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.493 ms
64 bytes from adsl-75-61-84-249.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net
(75.61.84.249): icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.602 ms


Apparently netstat truncated the URL before. Here's the code I
mentioned:

[code]
#!/usr/bin/env python
from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy
from time import time

s = ServerProxy("http://bukzor.hopto.org/modpython/xmlrpc.py",
verbose=True)

i = 0
start = time()
while True:
    print s.helloworld()
    print s.add(1,2)
    print s.subtract(1,2)
    i += 3
    print "AVG: %.2fs" % ((time() - start) / i)
[/code]

Thanks,
--Buck