rmiregistry & Linux server

[Thomas Fly]

I just spent a good 10 hours over the past couple days figuring this out- though Samba & my Windows network know ThinkPad (running RH Linux 7.3) is 192.168.1.2... rmiregistry broadcasts what it finds in /etc/hosts, which in my case was:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1ThinkPad localhost.localdomain localhost
 
[B]that[/B] resulted in:
 
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 127.0.0.1; nested exception is:        java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

which was baffling, since I darn well wasn't trying to connect to localhost!!! And furthermore, I'd put code into my client verifying that I had permission to connect to "ThinkPad/192.168.1.2"!

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
192.168.1.2ThinkPad ThinkPad.Fly
127.0.0.1localhost.localdomain localhost

Now I can serve from either Linux or Windows

[Michael Morris]

... /etc/hosts ...

How I miss the days when Unix was king of the Universe!
Michael Morris

[Thomas Fly]

You mean it's not??? Try running a webserver on Windows XP for a couple months (i.e., until the worm of some developing Code Red moth has eaten its brains out to the point of syphilitic dementia).