Why does the message send only once? The node sends once, then fails after that.
<code> import socket import thread import time def Node(nodeAddress): '''connect to node and get its file load''' sN = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) # Echo client program HOST = nodeAddress # The remote host PORT = 50007 # The same port as used by the server sN = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) sN.connect((HOST, PORT)) sN.send('Hello, world') data = sN.recv(1024) sN.close() print 'Received', repr(data) def Server(address): ''' starts a socket server and decides what to do with incomming stuff''' message = "hello from server" HOST = '' # Symbolic name meaning the local host PORT = 50007 # Arbitrary non-privileged port sP = None sL = None sR = None sS = None sStor = 0 sTotalStorage = 0 sCT = (sP,) '''look in server.conf for connect_to_server value''' s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.bind((HOST, PORT)) s.listen(1) conn, addr = s.accept() print 'Connected by', addr while 1: print message time.sleep(1) data = conn.recv(1024) #if not data: break conn.send(data) conn.close() thread.start_new(Server,('',)) thread.start_new(Node,('127.0.0.1',)) while 1: time.sleep(5) thread.start_new(Node,('127.0.0.1',)) </code> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list