Hi Elod, try

((Socket newUDP)
	setPeer: (NetNameResolver addressForName: 'localhost')
	port: 6000) inspect

At the time of this writing I don't recall why (most likely because  
alternatives didn't work) but, this worked for me in 3.7 and 3.8.

HTH.

/Klaus

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:22:59 +0100, you wrote:

> Hi! I am trying to connect to a server from Squeak 3.8.1#6747. It is the  
> Robocup Soccer Server that by default opens the UDP port 6000 for  
> connections. So I run the server and execute the following script in  
> Workspace: s:=Socket newUDP.
> s disconnect.
> s connectToHostNamed: 'localhost' port: 6000. I get an exception telling  
> me: "ConnectionTimedOut: Cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:6000". The strange  
> thing is, that if I run some sample clients for this server, they can  
> all connect, so the port is surely opened (I checked it also with a port  
> scanner). If I do not disconnect the port before connectiong, I get  
> "InvalidSocketStatusException: Socket status must Unconnected before  
> opening a new connection" exception. I checked my firewall settings, but  
> neither adding UDP 6000 port to exceptions, nor disabling my firewall  
> helped. I am running Fedora Core 5 x64 on an AMD Athlon 64  
> 3200+ processor with 1GB RAM. Do you have any idea what can be the  
> problem? I tried SocketStream class also but I get the same exception.  
> Cheers, Elod
>
>