Siege startup error - unable to connect to socket

Question

I'm running a 64x Ubuntu 12.10 and trying to use siege 2.70. The problem is when I'm trying to test ip address of my server or for example a google.com ip - 173.194.39.130

siege -g http://173.194.39.130

I get the following error:

[error] socket: unable to connect sock.c:222: Connection refused

And that's it.

When I do

siege -g http://www.google.com

I get the same error and a 200 valid response.

What could cause the problem ?

Answer 1

There was a bug in earlier versions of Siege that prevented the use of IP addresses on certain systems. By downloading and compiling the latest version of siege (>3) this issue should be resolved.