[hobbit] Debugging a client

Trent Melcher trent.melcher at sitel.com
Thu Jul 12 15:47:57 CEST 2007



On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:33 -0500, Trent Melcher wrote:
> Ok, our firewall team just opened up port 1984 so a client could connect
> to our hobbit server.  Well I can telnet to the server from the client
> on port 1984,  but Im still getting timeout messages in the
> hobbitclient.log,  below is a bb connect with debug on, what am I
> missing?
> [root at maila logs]# /home/hobbit/client/bin/bb --debug XXXXXXXXXXX
> "status xxxxx,xxxxx,net.test green `date`
> This is a test"
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 Transport setup is:
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 bbdportnumber = 1984
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 bbdispproxyhost = NONE
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 bbdispproxyport = 0
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 Recipient listed as 'xxxxx.xxxxx.net'
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 Standard BB protocol on port 1984
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 Will connect to address xxxxx.xxxxx.net port 1984
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 Connect status is 0

Looking at the sendmsg.c,  Im guessing a status of "0" means it
connected. Hmmmm
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 Sent 77 bytes
> 2007-07-12 08:26:41 Closing connection
> [root at maila logs]# telnet xxxxx.xxxxx.net 1984
> Trying XX.XX.XX.XX...
> Connected to xxxxx.xxxxx.net (XX.XX.XX.XX).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ^]
> telnet>

Ok, I might have figured it out,  does the Hobbit server need to talk
back to the client on port 1984?  If so, then that is my problem....they
only opened up 1984 to the hobbit server and not back to the client.
> 
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> Thanks
> Trent
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