On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 16:19, dahaverk@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > > > If the PC doesn't know how to "resolve" itself due to a mis-match of trying > to do a dns look up on a non-local subnet DNS you will have problems. At > least with MICO, (I don't remember what ORBit does) you can use the > parameter "-ORBNoResolv" to keep IP addresses in the IOR. > > -Dave > Thanks! It did end up being a DNS problem. My Linux boxes were getting host information from NIS, and my Windows hosts don't have NIS. I ended up configuring a DNS server for my LAN. That was quite an exercise, but now that's it done everything works well. I'll keep this other switch -ORBNoResolv in mind for the future though. Thank you both for all the help. -Craig > > > > > dank@kegel.com@gnome.org on 08/02/2002 06:33:39 PM > > Please respond to dank@kegel.com > > Sent by: orbit-list-admin@gnome.org > > > To: "Craig W. Wright" <craig.wright@cometsolutions.com> > cc: orbit-list@gnome.org > > Subject: Re: Orbit, Java, and Windows... > > > "Craig W. Wright" wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 10:32, dank@kegel.com wrote: > > > "Craig W. Wright" wrote: > > > > I brought the client over and I could not get it to connect to the > > > > server process. Actually, it would "dereference" my server's > stringified > > > > object, but I could not call any of the methods on it. The client > would > > > > report a Comm Failure and from what I can tell nothing is getting > over > > > > to the server at all. (This is with Java running under windows and > the > > > > server still under Linux). I also have JDK 1.3.1 for Windows. > > > > > > > > So I ran a couple of tests. I setup an "echo" client/server written > with > > > > orbit and java. The client was running on windows in Java and the > > > > servers on my Linux box. The windows box was able to connect to the > > > > Linux box when I ran the Java server, but I got the same errors as > > > > before when I tried to connect to the ORBit server. > > > > > > > > Has anyone heard of this before? Basically Java on Windows won't > > > > communicate with ORBit, but Java under Linux will. > > > > > > Say, might this be the old "can't ping the server from the > > > client using the hostname reported on the server by /bin/hostname" > > > problem? Could be a DNS problem. > > > > Does IIOP depend upon DNS is some way. I figured a numeric IP address to > > be packaged in the IOR, although I must admit I don't know a lot about > > CORBA. I can ping the machine based on its hostname though. > > Yes, it does depend on DNS, it can embed hostnames in the IOR. > > > > If that's not it, can you use Ethereal or windump or whatever > > > and get a packet trace to verify your suspicion that the > > > client on Windows is not sending any packets to the server? > > > > I used ethereal on my server and realized that there are no packets > > arriving that are originated by the client program. > > Yeah, now run etherreal or windump *on your client*, and > see where the dang packets are going! It might even be stuck doing dns... > > - Dan > _______________________________________________ > orbit-list mailing list > orbit-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orbit-list > > > >
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