[Ace-users] Re: [tao-users] network vs local access

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

Try to use -ORBDebugLevel 10 and see if you get connections. Maybe the IOR
contains the internal ip address, check TAO/docs/ORBEndpoint.html for
hostname_in_ior   	 

Regards,

Johnny Willemsen
Remedy IT
Postbus 101
2650 AC  Berkel en Rodenrijs
The Netherlands
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"burmair" <Tim at burmair.com> wrote in message
news:<1187524245.400809.4230 at 57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>...
> 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!
> 
> 
> ------------------
> 
>     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
>