wys / helbling.ch (Clemens Wyss) wrote in <Xns904DA13B7A4A5wyshelblingch@
130.133.1.4>:

>My (easy) testscript looks like this: 
>  require 'socket'
>  soc = TCPSocket.open("localhost", 8470)
>  soc.close()
>
...on the other hand "127.0.0.1" (instead of "localhost") finishes 
immediately.
Clemens