Error opening socket!

thoeniv has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

code:

use IO::Socket;

my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
         PeerAddr = 'peer's ip address',
         PeerPort = 5050,
         Proto = 'tcp'
) or die "Can't create client socket: $!";
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When I use this to create a client socket on the same server as the server socket, it works fine. When I try to open the client socket from another server on the same network it dies with the error message: Can't create client socket: No such file or directory. Any thoughts?

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Re: Error opening socket! by perlplexer (Hermit) on Apr 18, 2002 at 16:51 UTC
Firewall of some sort maybe? Try to telnet to that host; e.g., telnet 10.1.2.3 5050 See if you can get through... --perlplexer	[reply]
Re: Re: Error opening socket! by thoeniv (Initiate) on Apr 18, 2002 at 17:35 UTC
Telnet works! I'm on the same subnet as the server, so I don't think its a firewall issue.	[reply]
Re: Error opening socket! by dws (Chancellor) on Apr 18, 2002 at 18:02 UTC
If you're on an NT/Win2K box and are trying to do this from a CGI, you might have a permission problem. I'm not anywhere near an NT box right now, but recall that I had to do something regarding changing the user that IIS ran under, or that user's permission, to make this work.	[reply]