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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: Michael DeVivio <omc@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Simple Socket Question? Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:54:33 -0500 Organization: Online Multimedia Communications, Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32E67E89.7CA4@worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: omc@worldnet.att.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.116.38.220 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34390 Hello, I am new to UNIX and have had good success running PERL scripts like message boards, shopping carts, etc. I recently tried to put a web interface for Usenet news articals. The program is called Forum News Gateway. Here is my problem. When I open the socket like this: perl httpd.pl 8888& everything seems ok. It says it is listening. Then when I try to access that port through the client, I get this error: In RemoteGetIPAddr: socket is not an AF_INETsocket! Connection rejected: can't get remote IP number Why can't it figure out this IP number? I see quite a few sites on the net that got this thing to run. I am using BSD UNIX. Please reply to omc@worldnet.att.net Thank you in advance for your reply. Michael P.S. How do I close these sockets so I can try them again. If I repeat the process I can't use the same port number.