Joe Magee wrote:

> I am creating an application utilizing sockets. However, the client always
> reports connection refused.

Can we see some code?  If you're using a PC it could be as simple as
failing to swap something from host to network byte order.

> I can duplicate this problem using sample code from Wrox Beginning Linux
> Programming Second Edition.

FYI much of the code in that book was tested on NetBSD as well as
Linux, so in theory it should be OK.

> Any ideas on why application based sockets behave this way?

Not yet ... test case?

Regards,

Giles