[Ace-users] network vs local access

[burmair]

I'm trying to determine the cause of what seems to be very odd
behavior.  I don't know if this is a TAO issue or not.  I've include
an abbreviated PRF below in case it might contain some relevant info.

I have a server application using TAO which creates an endpoint as
"iiop://:5121".  My LAN is connected to the internet through a NAT
router (LinkSys WRT54G), which is set to forward 5121 to the computer
running the server.  An "Authenticator" servant is created using
string_to_ObjectId() and activate_object_with_id().

A client anywhere on the LAN can successfully connect to the server
using either the NAT router's public IP address, or the internal
private IP address of the computer running the server.  A client
running on the same computer as the server can also connect using
"localhost".  Connections are attempted using e.g. "corbaloc:://
192.168.1.90:5121/Authenticator" and string_to_object().  All well and
good.

>From outside the LAN (i.e., the internet), port 5121 is visible.  A
raw socket connection can be established, so there don't seem to be
any firewall issues.  However, the server doesn't respond, i.e.,
string_to_object() returns nil.

Can you think of a TAO mechanism that might account for this
behavior?  Is there any TAO tracing or logging that I can enable to
help diagnose the problem?

Thanks!


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    TAO VERSION: 1.5
    ACE VERSION: 5.5

    HOST MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM: WinXP SP2, Winsock2

    TARGET MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM, if different from HOST:
    COMPILER NAME AND VERSION (AND PATCHLEVEL): MS VC++6.0 SP5

    THE $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h FILE:

       #define ACE_HAS_WINSOCK2 1
       #define ACE_DISABLE_WIN32_ERROR_WINDOWS
       #define ACE_HAS_STANDARD_CPP_LIBRARY 0
       #define ACE_DISABLE_WIN32_INCREASE_PRIORITY
       #include "ace/config-win32.h"

    THE $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU FILE

    CONTENTS OF $ACE_ROOT/bin/MakeProjectCreator/config/
default.features

    AREA/CLASS/EXAMPLE AFFECTED: TAO

    DOES THE PROBLEM AFFECT:
        COMPILATION? No
        LINKING? No
        EXECUTION? Yes
        OTHER (please specify)? No