[Haskell-cafe] Issue with "connectTo" function in "network" package

[Jeremy Shaw]

Perhaps it was only listening on IPv6 ? ::1 ?

- jeremy

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:30 PM, aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I had an issue where using the connectTo [1] function would fail to
> connect to "localhost" if my wireless card was turned off. The moment
> I turned on my wireless connection it worked. But if I use connectTo
> with "127.0.0.1" [2] with my network off it works.
>
> I confirmed that "localhost' resolves to "127.0.0.1" by pinging
> "localhost" from command line with the Internet off.
>
> Is this a bug in "connectTo"?
>
> -deech
>
> [1] connectTo "localhost" (PortNumber some_number)
> [2] connectTo "127.0.0.1" (PortNumber some_number)
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