On Saturday 29 April 2006 07:09, Roshan wrote:

Tried, this today again, and now it does, create a server on port 4000, but still takes around 7-8 minutes.

you must've screwed up your system...

I thought, Java was preferred for networking programming and assumed, this would be true atleast for the years to come by. Is it true?

Dunno. I hate Java. I wouldn't use it if my life depended on it :/

Ah, for the moment, I don't think, I would be doing it in C, atleast till I am sure, I can do it.

hehehe :)

I do google, a lot more, but solutions seem to be passive, which does seem to help all the time. At these times, I post to the list!

right ;)

The code below works perfectly for me. I have shamelessly copied it from some website whose address I dont remember. I modified it a bit for our needs ofcourse. I have built it using gcj and java on my FC2 system and it works perfectly. It has no issues binding to port 4000.

import java.io.*; import java.net.*;

public class echoServer { public static void main(String args[]) {

ServerSocket echoServer = null; String line; DataInputStream is; PrintStream os; Socket clientSocket = null;

try { echoServer = new ServerSocket(4000); } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println(e); }

try { clientSocket = echoServer.accept(); is = new DataInputStream(clientSocket.getInputStream()); os = new PrintStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());

while (true) { line = is.readLine(); System.out.println("Client: " + line); os.println("Server: " + line); } } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println(e); } } }