Re: RMI & connection refused
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Duane Evenson wrote:
Here's my commands:
rmiregistry &
java -Djava.security.policy=policy RMIServer localhost 1099 &
java -Djava.security.policy=policy RMIClient localhost 1099
The problem is with the next command from a remote host:
java -Djava.security.policy=policy RMIClient adam 1099
java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 127.0.0.1; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
Why is it connecting to 127.0.0.1? That's the local loopback interface -
you know about that, right? If the client and server are on different
machines, that doesn't seem like a totally likely to work thing to do.
What's your /etc/hosts look like? What to you get if you do 'ping adam'?
A simple but good diagnostic tool in situations like this is telnet. On
the client machine, telnet to port 1099 on the server machine. If you
manage to make a connection, you know that there's nothing wrong at the
network level, and any problem must be in the program. If you can't make a
connection, you know there's trouble with the network - firewalls, DNS,
routing, something like that.
tom
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