[omniORB] Q: endPoint, endPointPublish and Windows hostname / computername

[Martin Trappel]

Duncan Grisby wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 July, Martin Trappel wrote:
> 
>> (...)
>> When - on the remote machine - I set endPoint:0=giop:tcp:sim-host: I
>> cannot connect to a server running there (CORBA_transient) (but a
>> local client there can connect). But when I set
>> endPointPublish:0=giop:tcp:sim-host: instead I can connect to the
>> server.
> 
> When you set endPoint, it restricts the server to only listen on a
> single IP address. (...)
> 
> (...) When the
> server looks up its own name, it gets a different IP address to the one
> the client sees. Thus with endPoint, the server is listening on just
> one, incorrect interface, so the client cannot connect. (...)
>> (...)
>> any pointers?
> 
> Run both client and server with traceLevel 25. That gives lots of
> information about connections. If possible, update to the 4.1.4 release,
> since that has even better logging in that respect than earlier
> versions.
> 

Duncan - thanks for the additional info.
I'll keep trace level 25 in mind next time we hit any problems. And I 
will only use endPointPublish in the future, since it seems to me now 
that endPoint with a name instead of an IP doesn't make that much sense.

cheers,
Martin