Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Adam Cooper <adam.cooper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I'm new to this list. I have been using Linux for just under a year and
have found it to be a very rewarding experiance. This week I made the
switch from Fedora Core 2 to Suse 9.1 Personal as I did not like the
direction that it was taking or the difeculty in configuring it.

I have a Java application that I have created. It is a text chat client
and server. Using Fedora I set up the firewall to allow port 80 through.
(The server listens on that port. Non standard I know), started the
server as root (only root is allowed to start apps on that port).
Clients could then connect to the server fine whether the client was
running on a different computer or via localhost on the same machine.

With Suse though I am not able to connect via localhost. I am unsure as
to why this is though. The firewall lets external connections though
fine. Java returns an unknown host exception.

Nothing has changed in the app so I am thinking that it is something to
do with how the host is set on the machine. Though I don't know enough
to confirm or deny this. The machine is auto-configured via dhcp.

Could someone please suggest some pointers as to what I can do. Where I
can look etc.

Thanks very much for any help you can give.

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Adam Cooper <adam.cooper@xxxxxxxxxx>