From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-05-06T05:41:25+09:00
Subject: Re: dRuby connection refused between two different machines


On May 5, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Geert Fannes wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Hodel [mailto:drbrain@segment7.net]
> Sent: Fri 5/5/2006 7:55 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: dRuby connection refused between two different machines
>
>> On May 5, 2006, at 4:27 AM, Geert Fannes wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I have been playing with dRuby and am getting strange
>>> differences with
>>> passing DRbUndumped-objects from a client machine to a DIFFERENT
>>> server and
>>> calling methods on this object:
>>
>> You're telling the client to connect back to the local machine.
>>
>>> #client code
>>> [...]
>>> server=DRbObject.new(nil,'druby://localhost:1234')
>>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I did replace the localhost with the server machine hostname, as I  
> wrote furtheron in my original mail:
>
> "If I start the server code on a DIFFERENT machine (same OS  
> (slackware 10.2),
> same ruby version (1.8.4)) and replace "localhost" with the server  
> machine
> name in the client code, the server gives as output:"

In the future please give exactly the code that is broken.

> Anyway, the client can connect to the server since the server wrote  
> "receiving something". It must be something else.

Then likely your second machine doesn't have a hostname set.  Check  
your DNS for both machines, forward and reverse.

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