[PLUG] Socket question
Roderick A. Anderson
raanders at acm.org
Thu Jun 7 23:02:55 UTC 2007
Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Anyone have a good understanding of network socket related stuff?
Quick update and a thank you to all that offered suggestions.
It was just where I thought the problem was. The remote software.
Turns out we weren't the first to have the problem. Another UNIX
installation had the same problem.
We as in, the software/service vendor and where I work, have come up
with a work around that doesn't involve the socket based connection API.
Again thanks,
Rod
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>
> The problem is my communication with a system outside our local network
> using sockets is acting strange. Wish I could be less vague but I can't.
>
> One time I'm getting error messages from the remote application the next
> I can't get any response back from the application. The socket read
> just hangs.
>
> I've used the same code to connect to a local system with no problems
> but to the outside system it is _weird_. I'm pretty sure it is not the
> remote system as they have other clients accessing it. My concern is my
> iptables may be a little too tight.
>
> The connection is to port 5150. Should the iptables have something
> special to allow the socket connection to go out _and_ stay up?
>
> And if it will help this is using Perl and IO::Socket::INET to connect
> and communicate.
>
>
> Rod
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