Flash socket server only works on local machine

Question

Hi, I have created a basic flash socket server in PHP, it all works fine on my local machine (both in the browser and in the flash sandbox) but as soon as I get another machine to connect to my computer's Site directory, they can't get a connection open to the server!

In flash:

mySocket.connect("localhost",9999);

In PHP

$address = '127.0.0.1';
$port = 9999;

I have tried changing the flash code to the IP of my machine but then none of the clients (including the local) can connect.

Please help!

PS. Running on a mac in the Sites dir. I am running the socket server through terminal (PHP 5). Am running a policy file server with perl but I don't think that is the problem

Answer 1

"127.0.0.1" is the address for the loopback interface. It's only available on the same machine. You need to listen on all interfaces (loopback, eth0, etc) by binding the socket to "0.0.0.0".