[Ace-users] [tao-users] Notification consumer on remote machine does not receive events

[Thomas Lockhart]

> Our Notification based application runs without problems when 
> supplier and consumer processes running on the same machine. On one
> machine we start Naming_Service, Notify_Service and  the supplier
> process. On the remote machine we start the consumer process. Remote
> calls from the consumer process to the supplier process work, so we
> think our network and service configuration is ok. Besides that we
> see that the consumer connects to the correct eventchannel created by
> the supplier process, but does not receive any events from the
> supplier.

This is likely due to DNS problems on the supplier machine. Even though 
the consumer machine can make CORBA calls on the supplier, the callback 
mechanism requires that the supplier machine behave like a client to the 
consumer server. And if there is a problem with machine names then the 
callbacks will just not happen.

You can do a quick check of this by running the consumer (and heck, the 
supplier too) with "-ORBDottedDecimalAddresses 1".

The two likely scenarios in my experience:
1) the consumer is using an unqualified host name while the supplier 
wants to resolve the name using a fully-qualified name (or vica versa)
2) the supplier is just resolving the wrong name altogether

hth

                        - Tom

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Thomas Lockhart
Supervisor, Realtime Software Group
Interferometry and Large Optical Systems
Caltech/JPL