Remote JNDI Lookup

[Terry Milan]

I have just installed JBoss 3.2.3. It seems to work fine running the default implementation. I have deployed the Remote Entity bean found in the O'Reilly, Enterprise Java Beans (ver. 3) book. If I run the client to this bean on the server machine it runs fine. However, if I run the same client from a remote machine on the same network, changing only the jndi.properties file so that:
java.naming.provider.url=jnp://myserver:1099
I get a stack trace which indicates that the connection is being being refused by the loop-back address (127.0.0.1). I am able to telnet this port on myserver. I am not sure whether my problem is in the client setup or in the server configuration. Here is what the stack trace looks like
run.client_41a:
[java] javax.naming.CommunicationException. Root exception is java.rmi.Con
nectException: Connection refused to host: 127.0.0.1; nested exception is:
[java] java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
[java] at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:
567)
[java] at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.
java:185)
[java] at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.jav
a:171)
[java] at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:101)
[java] at org.jnp.server.NamingServer_Stub.lookup(Unknown Source)
[java] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:52
8)
[java] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:50
7)
[java] at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
[java] at com.titan.clients.Client_1.main(Client_1.java:17)
[java] Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
[java] at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
[java] at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:295)
[java] at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.jav
a:161)
[java] at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:148)
[java] at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:425)
[java] at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:375)
[java] at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:290)
[java] at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:118)
[java] at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(R
MIDirectSocketFactory.java:22)
[java] at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(R
MIMasterSocketFactory.java:122)
[java] at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:
562)

[norman richards]

If this is the stack trace from the REMOTE machine, then it would seem that your jndi.properties isn't getting read/used. Otherwise, why would it by trying to connect to 127.0.0.1? (unless "myserver" resolves to that
IP address, which would be a completely different problem)
Check an make sure jndi.properties is on the client's classpath. You might want to use a Properties object to instantiate your InitialContext just to take the jndi.properties out of the loop temporarily and make sure you can connect.

[Terry Milan]

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I am fairly sure that I am hitting the correct jndi.properties file. I added a loop that printed the entries in the properties object. Also, I took a shot at building the properties object itself, but to no available. And you are correct, the stack trace was copied from the remote machine.

[Terry Milan]

I think I resolved my own problem. I think the problem was on the server side /etc/hosts file. There was no entry for localhost. I corrected the localhost entry so that it pointed to loopback in the server. This seemed to correct some confusion in JBoss.

[Mark Uppeteer]

yes, that was also the solution they offered at www.jboss.org , in the faqs.
(if you search on 'connection refused to 127.0.0.1')
grtz
themuppeteer

[Roman Krylov]

I had the same problem until added a line
jboss.bind.address=<remote_ip_addr>
to server's <JBOSS_HOME>/server/all/conf/jacorb.properties
rebooted that jboss as and it worked fine.
By the way, of course, I changed a line
java.naming.provider.url=jnp://<remote_ip_addr>:1099
on client's side.
The code was: one of examples from EJB3-preview.