[dhi-servers] NameServer communication problems

Sue Schoch sue at iris.washington.edu
Mon Aug 20 07:32:45 PDT 2007 

Morning again Philip,

Never mind my last question.  I've been out of dhi for a while.  Of  
course I can run both nameservers at once, but I'd have to run  
multiple copies of the servers to connect to the omni nameserver.

Sue

On Aug 19, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Philip Crotwell wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> Interesting that that was it. I know figuring it out for our  
> clients was a time consuming process. The underlying issue is that  
> the orbacus orb is old enough that when it was written there really  
> weren't any character sets used except ascii. Now, many os's use  
> utf8, and the client orbs respect whatever settings the client has  
> set. This is of course a nice thing if you are a non-english  
> speaker and want to send text via corba. But the use of utf8 by  
> newer orbs apparently has the downside off not working with the  
> older orbacus orb.
>
> Unless the server-side orb is upgraded, the only solution I know of  
> is for the clients to explicitly set their character set to ascii.
>
> Sorry,
> Philip
>
> On Aug 18, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Charles Ammon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I contacted the author of ADORB (Victor Ananiev) and he seems to have
>> figured out what is going on. The issue is the character code set
>> translation (good call Philip).
>>
>> If Victor is right, it appears that the server restart was not  
>> exactly
>> what was running before Wednesday. Please see the response from him
>> below. He makes several suggestions for me to work around the issue,
>> but if possible, the easiest for the group of people running my
>> clients would be to make the adjustment at the server to be the same
>> as it was before restart on Wednesday.
>>
>> Would this be possible? If not, I can start on the workarounds.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Victor Ananiev <v_ananiev at mac.com>
>> Date: Aug 18, 2007 12:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: ADORB stopped talking to another orb
>> To: Charles Ammon <cammon at geosc.psu.edu>
>>
>>
>> Hi Charles,
>>
>> The problem is in the character codeset negotiation. For some reason
>> they don't allow UTF8 (CORBA code 0x0501001).
>> It connects if I send ASCII (0x00010020) or no codesets at all.
>> Apparently they have changed something in the configuration or,
>> according to their log, forgot to register a converter for UTF8.
>>
>> For the time being you can change the value for native char code in
>> the file IDLTaggedComponent.m
>> //static int _nativeCharCode = 0x05010001;
>> static int _nativeCharCode = 0x00010020;
>>
>> I don't know how this can affect the rest of your application though.
>>
>> I will look for a better solution meanwhile.
>> The other way is to remove codesets from the service context using
>> interceptors that I have added in the version 1.5.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Victor Ananiev
>>
>>
>> On Aug 18, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Charles Ammon wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am sorry to bother you. I am an ADORB user and you helped me figure
>> some things out about using CORBA a long time ago. Since then, I have
>> been developing and using ADORB to talk with a seismic data server -
>> and all has been running well until this week. Now I can't connect to
>> the nameserver I have been talking to for more than a year. They did
>> restart the machine running the server, but they don't think that
>> anything has changed - it must have. I have codes that I have not
>> recompiled that used to work, but don't any more...
>>
>> I downloaded the most recent version of IDLBrowser and have been
>> trying to connect to the server, but all I get is a time out. I  
>> appear
>> to be the only one who is having problems (all others use java-based
>> orbs to communicate).
>>
>> The server address is 128.95.166.129:6371. Using IDLBrowser, I have
>> tried talking to the server with GIOP 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 (1.2 used to
>> work). All time out.
>>
>> I have been in touch with the server administrators and this is the
>> error that they see when I try to connect:
>>
>>   id: iiop
>>   local address: 192.168.167.2:6371
>>   remote address: 128.118.174.210:49185 ]
>> com.ooc.OB.AssertionFailed: ORBacus encountered an internal error
>>         at com.ooc.OB.Assert._OB_assert(Assert.java:19)
>>         at com.ooc.OB.CodeSetDatabase.getConverter 
>> (CodeSetDatabase.java:230)
>>         at com.ooc.OB.GIOPServerWorker.getCodeConverters 
>> (GIOPServerWorker.java:1
>> 00)
>>         at com.ooc.OB.GIOPServerWorker.executeRequest 
>> (GIOPServerWorker.java:441)
>>         at com.ooc.OB.GIOPServerWorker.execute 
>> (GIOPServerWorker.java:314)
>>         at com.ooc.OB.GIOPServerWorkerThreaded.receiverRun 
>> (GIOPServerWorkerThrea
>> ded.java:521)
>>         at com.ooc.OB.GIOPServerWorkerThreaded$ReceiverThread.run 
>> (GIOPServerWork
>> erThreaded.java:70)
>> com.ooc.OB.AssertionFailed: ORBacus encountered an internal error
>>         at com.ooc.OB.Assert._OB_assert(Assert.java:19)
>>         at com.ooc.OB.GIOPServerWorkerThreaded$ReceiverThread.run 
>> (GIOPServerWork
>> erThreaded.java:75)
>>
>> If you have any ideas, can you please let me know?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Chuck Ammon
>> ===================================================================== 
>> =
>> Charles J. Ammon, Department of Geosciences
>> Penn State University / 440 Deike Bldg / University Park, PA 16802
>> VOICE: (814) 865 2310  / FAXES: (814) 863 7823 or (814) 863 8724
>> http://eqseis.geosc.psu.edu/~cammon/
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> ===================================================================== 
>> =
>> Charles J. Ammon, Department of Geosciences
>> Penn State University / 440 Deike Bldg / University Park, PA 16802
>> VOICE: (814) 865 2310  / FAXES: (814) 863 7823 or (814) 863 8724
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