RE: connecting a socket to itself

[David Stevens]

 > But nothing was listen()'ing on the port and nothing accept()'ed the
> connection.
> 
> If you had similar code running on two different machines, each of which
> attempted connections to the other machine, I would expect that they
> would never connect because of the asymetric nature of the TCP SYN,
> SYN/ACK, ACK connection sequence.

You don't have to listen to do a connect. Two programs (on different
machines or not) that are doing cross connects works, too.

                                                        +-DLS

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