Errno 10061 in python, I don't know what do to

Question

I learned sockets in python. When I tried to programming sockets script in one computer, it worked, but when I tried to programming sockets script with two different computers and open socket with connection, it didn't work.

One computer(the server):

import socket

s = socket.socket()

host = socket.gethostname()
port = 1234
s.bind((host, port))

s.listen(5)
while True:
    c, addr = s.accept()
    print 'Got connection from', addr
    c.send('Thank you for connecting')
    c.close()

Second computer(the client):

import socket

s = socket.socket()

host = raw_input("The ip you want to connect to: ")
port = 1234

s.connect((host, port))
print s.recv(1024)

Error:

socket.error: [Errno 10061]

What is the problem in the scripts? Why it doesn't work?

Answer 1

Errno 10061:

It means the server you are trying to connect to is not waiting for one.

• Make sure you have the port number open.
• Try killing all python processes and start server again.

Update

Instead of

host = socket.gethostname()

use

host = ""