[python] Errno 10061 : No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it ( client - server )

I have a problem with these client and server codes, I keep getting the [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

I'm running the server on a virtual machine with Windows XP SP3 and the client on Windows 7 64bit, my python version is 2.7.3. What I want to know is how should I edit the code to use the client and server on different networks! Thanks!

server :

#!/usr/bin/python           # This is server.py file

import socket               # Import socket module
s = socket.socket()         # Create a socket object
host = '0.0.0.0' # Get local machine name
port = 12345                # Reserve a port for your service.


print 'Server started!'
print 'Waiting for clients...'

s.bind((host, port))        # Bind to the port
s.listen(5)                 # Now wait for client connection.
c, addr = s.accept()     # Establish connection with client.
print 'Got connection from', addr
while True:
  msg = c.recv(1024)
  print addr, ' >> ', msg
  msg = raw_input('SERVER >> ')
  c.send(msg);
  #c.close()                # Close the connection

client :

#!/usr/bin/python           # This is client.py file

import socket               # Import socket module

s = socket.socket()         # Create a socket object
host = socket.gethostname() # Get local machine name
port = 12345                # Reserve a port for your service.

print 'Connecting to ', host, port
s.connect((host, port))

while True:
  msg = raw_input('CLIENT >> ')
  s.send(msg)
  msg = s.recv(1024)
  print 'SERVER >> ', msg
#s.close                     # Close the socket when done

PS : code is from internet.

Hint: actively refused sounds like somewhat deeper technical trouble, but...

...actually, this response (and also specifically errno:10061) is also given, if one calls the bin/mongo executable and the mongodb service is simply not running on the target machine. This even applies to local machine instances (all happening on localhost).

? Always rule out for this trivial possibility first, i.e. simply by using the command line client to access your db.

See here.

The below changes fixed my problem. I struggled with the same error for a week. I would like to share with you all that the solution is simply host = '' in the server and the client host = ip of the server.  

the short term solution is to use the default iis host and port normally 120.0.0.1 and 80 respectively. However am still looking for a more versatile solution.

Using the examples from: https://docs.python.org/3.2/library/socketserver.html I determined that I needed to set the HOST port to the machine I had the server program running on. So TCPServer on 192.168.0.1 HOST = TCPServer IP 192.168.0.1 then I had to set the TCPClient side to point to the TCPServer IP. So the TCPClient HOST value = 192.168.0.1 - Sorry, that's the best I can describe it.

The solution is to use the same IP and Port number in both client and server. Try, in client to use TCP_IP = 'write the ip number here' TCP_PORT = writ the port number here s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))

I had errors 10060 and 10061. The reason was in my antivirus(Eset Nod 32). Try to turn off the Firewall of your antivirus as I did or just delete it for a time to test the program. If everything started to work properly, add that program to the exclusion or switch to another antivirus. Also, try to change the 'host' variable to an empty string:

host = ''

And add socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM to the 's' variable:

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

When you run the code on windows machine, firewall prompts it to allow network access, allow the network access and it will work, if it does not prompts, go to firewall settings > allow an app through firewall and select your python.exe and allow network access.

The first: Please make sure your port '12345' is opening and then when you using a different network. You have to use the IP address in LAN. Don't use the 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1'. The solution here is: In server

host = '192.168.1.12' #Ip address in LAN network

In client

host = '27.32.123.32' # external IP Address

Hope it works for you

if you have remote server installed on you machine. give server.py host as "localhost" and the port number. then client side , you have to give local ip- 127.0.0.1 and port number. then its works

instead of localhost of '0.0.0.0', use local network address as host in case of both - the server and the client - code.

host = '192.168.12.12' port = 12345

use this host address when binding and connecting to the socket.

server.bind((host, port)) client.connect((host, port))

this change solved the issue for me.

This could be because of proxy or firewall. If it's proxy, then you need to specify proxy setting at entry point of your code or project.

import os #for proxy

proxy = 'http://10.XX.XX.XX:8X8X' #your own proxy 'http://<user>:<pass>@<proxy>:<port>'

os.environ['http_proxy'] = proxy 
os.environ['HTTP_PROXY'] = proxy
os.environ['https_proxy'] = proxy
os.environ['HTTPS_PROXY'] = proxy
#rest of code .....

10061 is WSAECONNREFUSED, 'connection refused', which means there was nothing listening at the IP:port you tried to connect to.

There was a firewall product around the year 2000 that issued refusals instead of ignoring incoming connections to blocked ports, but this was quickly recognised as an information leak to attackers and corrected or withdrawn.

I was facing a similar problem when I was calling REST API using python library and what I found that my server was going into sleep mode which was leading to this. As soon as I logged in to the server via Remote Desktop Connection, my API call used to work.

There is no relationship between error and firewall.

first, run server program,
then run client program in another shell of python

and it will work