Re: COMM_FAILURE

[Hing-Wah Wan <50191914 ee cityu edu hk>]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:50:55AM +0100, Katherine Goude wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
> >  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
> 
> >From the machine A client I _can_ ping the machine B server using the result
> of /bin/hostname on machine B (and vice versa) so it doesn't look like this is
> the problem.
> 
> I tried running ior-decode-2 on the IORs produced by the server on each
> machine. With the IOR produced by the server on machine B, ior-decode-2 does
> not output the section IOP_TAG_INTERNET_IOP wheras with the IOR produced by
> machine A it does.
> I have no idea what this means - could this be the cause of the comm failure?
> And if so how do I fix it?

check your /etc/orbitrc or $HOME/.orbitrc for the machine where
IOP_TAG_INTERNET_IOP doesn't output

you probably get a "ORBIIOPIPv4=0" on the file which disable TCP/IP
connection

> 
>     Machine A                                            Machine B
>         server    <--------------------------    client            works!
>         client     --------------------------->   server           fails!
> 
> regards,
> Katherine
> 
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