[Tutor] problem with socket connection

[shawn bright]

Hey all,

I keep getting a connection error 111 connection refused. When i try to
connect to a server at a remote ip address.

I am using linux on both computers.

the socket server looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/python
import SocketServer

class MyTCPHandler(SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):

    def handle(self):
        self.data = self.request.recv(1024).strip()
        print "%s wrote:" % self.client_address[0]
        print self.data
        # just send back the same data, but upper-cased
        self.request.send(self.data.upper())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    HOST, PORT = "127.0.0.1", 3000

    # Create the server, binding to localhost on port 9999
    server = SocketServer.TCPServer((HOST, PORT), MyTCPHandler)

    # Activate the server; this will keep running until you
    # interrupt the program with Ctrl-C
    server.serve_forever()


and the client looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/python

import socket
import sys

HOST, PORT = "ip.address.of.server", 3000
data = "hello world"

# Create a socket (SOCK_STREAM means a TCP socket)
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

# Connect to server and send data
sock.connect((HOST, PORT))
sock.send(data + "\n")

# Receive data from the server and shut down
received = sock.recv(1024)
sock.close()

print "Sent:     %s" % data
print "Received: %s" % received

the server starts fine on the remote computer, but the client dies
immediatly when executed ( to time to find the server, i don't think) with
the connection refused error.
The port forwarding is set up correctly on both computers, i know because i
have another app that runs on 3000 ( but is not running when i am trying
this)

also, it does not work between two linux computer on the same LAN,

it does work if i use localhost and run both server and client on the
same computer.

any tips would be greatly appreciated,
thanks

sk
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