From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T18:25:14+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Rubyists? Do Remote Objects work for you?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:08:24AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> You'll find that with DRbUndumped, the 'server' will end up opening a fresh
> TCP connection back to the 'client'
> 
> The easy way for you to prove that it's a network issue is to put the two
> FreeBSD boxes on the *same subnet* (i.e. with no router or anything in
> between)

Oh, and one other thing: the client side machine will read its own system
hostname (as shown by 'hostname' on many Unix systems), and pass that across
to the server. At the time it wishes to connect back, the server will then
try to resolve that name back to an IP address.

So it's important that 'hostname' contains a real hostname and your DNS is
working, or at least at the server side you have an entry in /etc/hosts for
the client host.

B.