Terminally Incoherent

I was messing around with ruby on my Windows box and for some reason WEBrick kept crashing on me with the following output:

ruby script/server
=> Booting WEBrick…
=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with –help for options
[2007-02-26 03:14:11] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2007-02-26 03:14:11] INFO ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]
[2007-02-26 03:14:11] WARN TCPServer Error: Bad file descriptor - bind(2)
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `initialize’: Bad file descriptor - bind(2) (Errno::EBADF)
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `new’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:73:in `create_listeners’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:70:in `each’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/utils.rb:70:in `create_listeners’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:75:in `listen’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:63:in `initialize’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:24:in `initialize’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:58:in `new’
… 7 levels…
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.2.2/lib/commands/server.rb:39
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require’
from script/server:3

A quick google indicates that I’m not the only one having this issue but it does seem very rare. Curiously enough the solution turned out to be using a different port for the server. For example I did:

ruby script/server -p8080

That seemed to work just fine. Strange… I’m wondering if this might have something to do with my AV or Firewall blocking connections on port 3000 for some reason…

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