[omniORB] Naming Server Crash

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 15 December, Brent Fulgham wrote:

> > Yes. You can easily point omniNames to a different config file by
> > setting the OMNIORB_CONFIG environment variable. omniNames doesn't
>                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > need to know the host and port of the Naming service of course...
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> I'm not sure I follow.  If I don't use this configuration file,
> then I *must* assign a hostname and port at the command line,
> don't I?  How does the Nameserver know which port to listen on
> otherwise?

ORBInitialHost and ORBInitialPort tell clients of the Naming service
where the Naming service lives. omniNames does not use this mechanism
to decide where to put itself. It obviously knows the host, since it's
running on it; it gets the port number from -start or from the
omniNames log file.

HTH,

Duncan.

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