Full details of Winsock TCP error 10061 - WSAECONNREFUSED:
Berkeley description: No connection could be made
because the target machine actively refused it. This usually results
from trying to connect to a service that is inactive on the foreign
host.
WinSock description: Same as Berkeley
TCP/IP scenario: In TCP terms (datastream sockets), it
means an attempt to connect (by sending a TCP SYN packet) caused the
destination host to respond to the host by returning a reset (a TCP RST
packet). If an application sends a UDP packet to a host/port that does
not have a datagram socket "listening," the network system may
respond by sending back an ICMP Port Unreachable packet
User suggestions: Either you went to the wrong host, or
the server application you're trying to contact isn't executing. Check
the destination address you are using. If you used a hostname, did it
resolve to the correct address? If the hostname resolution uses a local
hosttable, it's possible you resolved to an old obsolete address. It's
also possible that the local services file has an incorrect port number
(although it's unlikely).
You can verify that the remote system is rejecting your
connection attempt by checking the network statistics locally. Check
that your network system (WinSock implementation) has a utility that
shows network statistics. You could use this to verify that you're
receiving TCP resets or ICMP Port Unreachable packets each time you
attempt to connect.
Developer suggestions: If you have a network analyzer
available, you can quickly check if the destination port number and host
address are what you expect. On the server end, you could use a network
system utility similar to BSD's "netstat -a" command to check
that your server is running, and listening on the right port number.
This is one of the most frequent errors and one of the best to
encounter, since it's one of the least ambiguous. There are only a few
possible causes for this error:
- you tried to connect to the wrong port. This is a common
problem. You need to call to
translate a constant value to network byte order before assigning it to
the sin_port field in the sockaddr structure.
- you tried to connect to the wrong destination host address
- the server application isn't running on the destination host
- the server application isn't listening on the right port.
The server application might need to call
to translate the port to network byte order in the sockaddr structure.