Enabling "localhost" for Applications?

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:44 -0400, Pyth7 wrote:
> Hi All,
> Am new to Fedora 5 and linux in general.
> Is there something -a service(?)- I need to
> to start to enable applications to connect on
> localhost?
> I am trying to run an application (FreeWRL)
> that uses a tcp socket connection in a server/client
> relationship using "localhost" port 9877.
> The client part can't connect and times out
> ,though the server part seems to run fine
> per se.

Are you sure the server is running properly?

Try:

$ netstat -lpn | grep 9877

That should show the server process listening on port 9877. If not, the
server part isn't running properly.

Do you have a firewall enabled?

Paul.