Socket issues

[Gary M. Josack]

twistedduck9 wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've been trying to set up sockets on my server (running Apache/2.2.3)
> using python and I'm confused as to why it doesn't work.
>
> I set up a simple listening script which runs without error, and works
> if a connecting script is run on the same server. However, if I try to
> connect using Telnet it doesn't work. I am definetly using the public
> IP address (79.99.43.58:2727).
>
> The weird thing is that I have the same problem if I make the socket
> in PHP, and even more weird is that sockets used to work, but now do
> not (and as far as I can tell, I have changed nothing).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Sunil
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With no code it's hard to tell if there's an issue there, but if the 
same code worked before and still works locally I'm going to guess firewall.