[omniORB] VC++ 5: omniORB Mishandling Exceptions! Other errors!

[Arne Christensen]

Sai-Lai Lo writes:
> 
> dmorgen@alum.mit.edu (David Morgenlender) writes:
> 
> > 
> > catior comes up with an ASSERTION failure when I do this.  This is what's
> > printed until that point (nothing else is printed if I say to ignore the =
> > error):
> > 
> > 	Type ID: "IDL:Echo:1.0"
> > 	Profiles:
> > 	1. IIOP 1.0 127.0.0.1 0 "5b.\........"
> > 
> > That's not the IP address of the ETS-Kernel box!
> > 
> > How do I correct that?
> > 
> 
> The IP address is the loopback interface.
> The ORB first uses gethostname() to get the name of the host  and then uses
> gethostbyname() to obtain the IP address of the host. It always picks the
> first one from the list of addresses returned by gethostbyname().
> 
> Usually, /etc/hosts has an entry localhost which resolves to 127.0.0.1.
> May be gethostname() on your machine returns "localhost"!
> 
> Anyway, you can tell the ORB what address to use directly by specifying
> the environment variable OMNIORB_USEHOSTNAME_VAR
> 
> e.g.
> 
> Suppose your machine's name is wib:
> 
> set OMNIORB_USEHOSTNAMEVAR=wib

Not in order to be picky (at least not more that omniORB is), but
ain't that just OMNIORB_USEHOSTNAME ?

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