Re: [Gnump3d-users] failure in creating the listening socket

[Steve Kemp]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:27:06AM -0400, Rajarajan Rajamani wrote:

> Couldn't create the listening socket for receiving incoming
> requests upon
> 
> Perhaps the port 8888 is already in use?
> 
> This is the error message the system returned:
> Can't assign requested address
> 
> -END-----------------------------------------
> 
> This is the only instance of gnump3d running on my system. I have
> changed the port numbers to other different numbers but the problem
> still continues. I am running freeBSD5.2.1. Since I did have this
> working properly a few days ago I am wondering if this is due to any
> change in the libraries/perl modules which might have been upgraded on
> the system in the past few days. 

  I've not made any change in the past few days!  Although from memory
 the BSD ports tree was running 2.5 until very recently.

  The error message is interesting, normally I'd expect something like
 "port already in use", or "permission denied" - that message about
 the address strikes me as odd.

  Do you the configuration variable 'binding_host' set to something?
 If so does that value make sense?  Normally this is empty which causes
 all interfaces to be bound to, but I know a lot of people use this
 to bind explicitly to only an internal address, etc.

Steve
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