[hobbit] client talks to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1984 ?!

[Jerry Yu]

any idea, anyone ?

On 7/27/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> just for kicks, I installed bind-utils package. same results.  I md5sum
> the RPM to check with the original, and it matched. I re-installed the
> package. same results. am running out of idea here now.
> Next, I'll try to trace system calls, to see where it gets the idea to use
> localhost instead.
> this is freakingly crazy, ahwww
>
>
> On 7/27/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > client named web6 has "127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain localhost"
> > server named moon has "127.0.0.1       moon    localhost moon.giggle.com
> > "
> >
> > The server works fine for a dozen of clients. This web6 client is the
> > only one has this behavior and not sure where it gets the idea it should
> > connect to localhost instead of the server I told it to in
> > /etcdefault/hobbit-client?!
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/26/06, Brodie, Kent < brodie at mcw.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >   Check the server's /etc/hosts file.    RH has a bad habit of setting
> > > the fqdn to 127.0.0.1…..   In my opinion, the server's fqdn should be
> > > the external IP address, and only "localhost" should be 127.0.0.1….
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Not certain this is your issue, I'll give my hunch a 50% success guess
> > > J
> > >
> > >
> > >  ------------------------------
> > >
> > > *From:* Jerry Yu [mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com]
> > > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:33 PM
> > > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> > > *Subject:* [hobbit] client talks to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1984 ?!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > hi, there,
> > > I have both client & server of 4.2-RC-20060712 on Redhat Linux 9.
> > > Other RHL9 clients work fine. One, mysteriously,  failed to start.
> > > hobbitclient.log shows it tries to bond with 127.0.0.1:1984 , as fails
> > > miserably. As in other clients, I define the bb server's IP address in
> > > /etc/default/hobbit-client.  -x execution of the init script seems it did
> > > source the /etc/default/hobbit-client and got the correct bb server IP
> > > address. Any idea ? This RH9 boxen doesn't have bind-util package installed,
> > > that's the only difference I can think of.
> > >
> >
> >
>
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