Brian Mitchell wrote: > On 10/4/06, Alex Fenton <alex / deleteme.pressure.to> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'd like to use druby, but with the client using just an IP address to >> contact the server, and vice versa > Note that it is a good idea to specify an explicit interface on the > client side so you make sure it binds to something the server can > reach. Some systems will bind to something like 127.0.0.1 when > resolving the host's name (i.e. Ubuntu does this). Thank you, that was it. Added an explicit IP address on the client side made it work fine. I was using start_service on the client with no args. It was binding to the windows machine name, and the OS X server I was trying to connect to couldn't resolve it back. alex