Winsock is messing up!!!

i honestly don't know what is wrong with winsock and sometimes i actually wonder if it is reliable for a suitable network app.

i have been using it all this while...no prob, until 3days ago when i run the client it doesn't shows up on the server and the server is not notified since it doesn't show up on the server.

this is it... i have a probability of 2/6 of it showing on the server(i.e. if i run it the first time, it does connect and the 2nd time it doesn't and the 3rd time it does and the 4th time it doesn't and so on...).

what is going on?

Without seeing any of your code it will be impossible to help you.

If you don't have a good understanding of the various protocols, you can easily get yourself into trouble.

For starters, when you fail to connect and then run netstat from a CMD window, what if anything, is the state of your previous connection? If you don't understand what I am asking, copy&paste the entire netstat output into a reply and indicate what IP:port you connected on.

And post you code!

Not exactly sure what's really happening?, but ill toss this out there, it may be useful.
I had put together a tax calculator app and wanted it to calculate amt of hours and also figure overtime then subtract all the different taxes and display results in the apropriate boxes and when I ran this app. the total would only come up bout 2/6
times or I could hit process again and then it would calculate.
This was my probelem !!:
I had coded the second process (calculation) above the first so it was running out of order
this might not pertain to your issue but hopefully it was something along the lines of just a simple misplacement of order