Re: IOR problem on IRIX

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, [iso-8859-1] Stéphane Genaud wrote:

> When i decode the ior (with
> http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/ILU/parseIOR/)
> i have the host number seems to be  kind of broadcast : it's IP is
> 255.255.255.255
> The brief parsing gives :
> 
>  object key is
> <#00#00#00#00#A07#CA#88#8A#BB#B8L#00#00#00#01#CD#00#FB#E2#E6#C4#18q>;
>  no trustworthy most-specific-type info; unrecognized ORB;
>  reachable with IIOP 1.0 at host "255.255.255.255", port 2256
> 
> If i swap the client and the server, i.e the server on the linux box,
> and the client on
> the IRIX system, all work fine. I have in ~/.orbitrc : 
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> -ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> 
> Decoding IOR generated on the linux box gives the exact IP of the linux
> system.
> Any idea why is 255.255.255.255 encoded in the IOR ?

Maybe gethostbyname() or gethostbyaddr() is not working because /etc/hosts
broken on the IRIX box - you need to be able to turn gethostname() into an
IP address and back into a hostname...

-- Elliot
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