[slime-devel] Re: Why is Slime trying to open port 0?

[Dirk Gerrits]

Helmut Eller wrote:
> As Macro explained, port 0 just means let the OS select a random port.
> The problem is not the port number, but the IP address of the
> interface. (CMUCL's error message is bit misleading here.)  SLIME used
> to bind the socket to the interface "localhost", which is usually the
> loopback device 127.0.0.1.  Apparently this is not the case in your
> configuration.

Ah thanks for the quick response guys. It's working again!

I thought SLIME was broken, when I had actually fouled up my 
/etc/network/interfaces. Sorry!

Embarrassed-ly yours,

Dirk Gerrits