> I just found the cause of the problem ten minutes ago:
> It seems that when a socket listens on the address "127.0.0.1" or
> "localhost", another process cannot connect to it using the machine's
> name (even from the same machine).
> The best seems to listen with the empty address "".
That doesn't seem right. If that were the case, none of the hundreds of
network-oriented tests would work either. These all bind against ('localhost',
0) by default which seems to Do The Right Thing on all the platforms we have
buildbots for.
Trent.
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