From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T07:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: drb works on one system fails on other

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mike Goldsby wrote:

> Attached is a simple test program.  I'm running the server on Ubuntu
> Linux
> 7.10, the client on Windows XP SP2.  On one pair of such systems it
> works
> perfectly.  On the other, it fails with the error given below. Any idea
> why it behaves differently on the two pairs of systems and what I can do
> to fix it?

My first thought would be "firewall configuration".  Are there any errors
logged on the server?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Mike

        Hugh
> 
> C:\home\ruby\drbtest>ruby gds_client.rb 134.252.17.114
> D, [2008-11-17T20:11:51.514000 #948] DEBUG -- : Connected to GDS server
> (druby://134.252.17.114:9999) /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:736:in
> `open':   druby:
> //sandia-925b175b:1035 - #<SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not
> known>
> (DRb::DRbConnError)
>         from (druby://134.252.17.114:9999)
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:729:in `
> each'
>         from (druby://134.252.17.114:9999)
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:729:in `
> open'
>         from (druby://134.252.17.114:9999)
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1189:in
> `initialize'
>         from (druby://134.252.17.114:9999)
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1169:in
> `new'
>         from (druby://134.252.17.114:9999)
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1169:in
> `open'
>         from (druby://134.252.17.114:9999)
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1085:in
> `method_missing'
>         from (druby://134.252.17.114:9999)
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1103:in
> `with_friend'
> "/tmp/output.txt" [dos] 30L, 1339C        from
> (druby://134.252.17.114:9999) /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1084:in
> `method_missing'
>         from (druby://134.252.17.114:9999) ./global_data_set.rb:13:in
> `put'
>         from gds_client.rb:27:in `run'
>         from gds_client.rb:44
> 
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