Re: COMM_FAILURE

[Dan Kegel <dank kegel com>]

Katherine Goude wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to run a test client and server over a network between two
> machines. If I run the server on one machine and the client on the
> other, everything works fine. However if I swap these over and run the
> server on the second machine, when I start the client on the first
> machine I get the exception: "IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0".
> 
> Anyone know what might be causing this? Both machines contain a
> ~/.orbitrc file containing the line ORBIIOPIPv4=1. And it shouldn't be a
> problem with the IOR passing between server and client because I'm still
> using the highly technical method of cut and paste at the moment. The
> lack of online help for ORBit has left me a bit stuck. Any ideas?

I've seen funny problems if you try to run corba servers on machines
where /bin/hostname produced a hostname that was not well known
to the world... make sure both machines can ping the server at the
address returned by /bin/hostname on the server.
- Dan