3425 ECONNREFUSED

i am having the following problem..i am trying to run a socket communication between and 820 and an i5..the server and client connect run fine as long as they are on the same machine..i am using the 820 as the server and the i5 as client..when the client attempts to connect with the server i get the following message 3425 ECONNREFUSED..this happens no matter how i try to get the address..i have tried with gethostbyname using the host name and also with inetaddr using the actual ip address..i think there is some sort of configuration problem but cannot find it..thought it was because the i5 had alwanynet set to *no but that did not fix the problem..inetaddr gets an address but again the same message..gethostbyname ends up with address of 0..netstatus shows that the server is active and listening..

this has become a critical issue..can anyone help

the server is active and listening on socket 2000 which is the one i am using..netstat *cnn shows this to be true on the server system which every system i use for the server..

the only change to the client code from running client and server on the same system is the change of

D servername s 255a inz('LOCALHOST')

to the actual server name..this is verified using navigator as being in the table with the correct ip address..and is found by the gethostbyname..there are no errors up to the point of actual connection with the connect..this is when the econnrefused occurs..

now when gethostbyname is used it comes back with an address to go into sinaddr of 0 when the ip address is coded in and inetaddr is used sinaddr comes back with an actual number for the address..

i just found your code last night..i have been using the example in the rpg redbook who knew and have used this same program setup before for socket connections with no problems..but that was also using local host and connecting with a pc connected as a workstation..not between two as/400 or iseries..

i hope this makes it a bit more clear..

as i said i can run the client and server together on each individual system using localhost for the server name with no problem..when i change from i try to install and run server on one system and the client on the other i get the econnrefused message and in every case whichever system the server is shown in netstat as being up..running and listening..
i made some changes to include inet_ntoa so i could check to see if i am getting a correct address and ip number from the gethostbyname..i am..

the socketaddr data structure on the client side has the following information

sinfamily of socketaddr = 2
sinport of socketaddr = 2000
sinaddr of socketaddr = 3232235876 which converts to 198.162.1.100 when placed into inet_ntoa which is correct
sinzero of socketaddr = ' '

on the server machine the server is active and is waiting in debut mode at the accept function..

netstat *cnn shows the server active and listening on port 2000

when the client issues the connect function it always gets the error message 3425 connection refused..

as i said when i run the client and server on the same machine there are no problems connecting even when the server name is used instead of localhost..

i have checked many times in navigator and the server name is in the table with the correct ip address..

so i dont know what is happening..