[omniORB] omniNames only available from localhost

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 26 July, "Sebastian Bickel" wrote:

> I hava a problem. I started omniNames with the following command:
> 	/usr/local/bin/omniNames -start 2809 &
> 
> It is readable only from localhost properly. On other hosts in my
> network no connection is established. If I sniff my TCP connection,
> only a SYN flag is send form the Client to the NameService and nothing
> happens.

Most likely, your machine has a firewall that is blocking the connection
attempts. You might try running omniNames with -ORBtraceLevel 25 to see
if it is seeing any connections coming in, but I don't think you'll see
any.

> I found an entry in the FAQ describing Redhat has a problem with bad /etc/hosts files. 
> (http://www.omniorb-support.com/omniwiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-
> 1011b41836defb2e978bc7d6d57fcc384283cae1)

That's only relevant to ancient versions of omniORB.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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