What host do I have to bind a listening socket to?
- by herrturtur
I used python's socket module and tried to open a listening socket using
import socket
import sys
def getServerSocket(host, port):
for r in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, socket.AF_UNSPEC,
socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0, socket.AI_PASSIVE):
af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = r
try:
s = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
except socket.error, msg:
s = None
continue
try:
s.bind(sa)
s.listen(1)
except socket.error, msg:
s.close()
s = None
continue
break
if s is None:
print 'could not open socket'
sys.exit(1)
return s
Where host was None and port was 15000.
The program would then accept connections, but only from connections on the same machine. What do I have to do to accept connections from the internet?
