[hobbit] Debugging a client

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:47:57AM -0500, Trent Melcher wrote:
> 
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> 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

This looks OK. If you get "timeout" messages in your client log, then
check that the Hobbit server IP is configured correctly in
hobbitclient.cfg (the "BBDISP" setting).

Try this:

   cd ~hobbit/client
   HOBBITCLIENTHOME=`pwd` ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitclient.cfg
   $BB $BBDISP --debug "ping"

This makes the same test you just did, but with the settings that 
the Hobbit client uses.

> Ok, I might have figured it out,  does the Hobbit server need to talk
> back to the client on port 1984? 

No, the connection is only opened from the client to the Hobbit server.


Regards,
Henrik