# Can't connect to drb server on localhost

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-connect-to-drb-server-on-localhost/147609>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [September 3, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-connect-to-drb-server-on-localhost/147609 "2008-09-03T16:40:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-connect-to-drb-server-on-localhost/147609/1 "2008-09-03T16:40:23Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to get acts\_as\_ferret/ferret to run, it runs find on my  
local machine but when I try and run in on my server I get the following

DRb::DRbConnError (druby://localhost:9100 - #\<Errno::ETIMEDOUT:  
Connection timed out - connect(2)\>):

Any advice?

Thanks  
James

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**Author:** ![byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@byrnejb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/byrnejb)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-connect-to-drb-server-on-localhost/147609/2 "2008-09-03T18:07:53Z")

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James Burka wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to get acts\_as\_ferret/ferret to run, it runs find on my  
> local machine but when I try and run in on my server I get the following
> 
> DRb::DRbConnError (druby://localhost:9100 - #\<Errno::ETIMEDOUT:  
> Connection timed out - connect(2)\>):
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Thanks  
> James

I should of mentioned this earlier , the ferret\_server is runing

ps aux | grep ferret\_server  
ruby script/ferret\_server start -e production

and the server appears to be listening to port 9010

lsof -i | grep 9010  
ruby TCP localhost:9010 (LISTEN)