Network Connections on 'localhost'

[davefilip]

Rene,

It appears as though while I can readily open a CSocket (IPPROTO_TCP) connection to another network node (Circle or otherwise), I cannot to the local Circle node doing the Connect().

Also, perhaps not surprisingly, I can use the Dev branch to Ping other nodes, but not the node I'm on (not that it is very useful to ping yourself, but it seems to confirm that ICMP -- which does not use sockets -- also cannot talk to the network node you're running on).

Of course, I'm trying the actual network IP address of the node I'm on, but "traditionally" there is a loopback address of 127.0.0.1, which of course also does not work (didn't think it would, since it is not documented anywhere, but I thought I'd try nonetheless).

Is this intentional, or is there an architectural reason why connecting to the local network address of a Circle node does not work?

Just curious.

Thanks,

Dave.