RMI invocation attempts connecting to 127.0.0.1

Hi

I've exported a bean by using the RmiServiceExporter, and tries to access this bean through the RmiProxyFactoryBean. This works fine when client and server is on the same host, but fails with the following exception when client is set up on a different host. I have ofcourse set the RmiProxyFactoryBean.serviceUrl correctly, and the remote object is found, but as the exception shows it is the invocation of a method on the remote object that fails with a connect failure to 127.0.0.1. Why is the loopback address being used? I found from the javadocs of RmiServiceExporter a suggestion to set -Djava.rmi.server.host , but this does not seem to help. [using spring 2.0]

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.remoting.RemoteConnectFailureE xception: Cannot connect to remote service [rmi://bernt:2000/Admin]; nested exception is java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 127.0.0.1; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
Caused by: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 127.0.0.1; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEnd point.java:574)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection( TCPChannel.java:185)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCP Channel.java:171)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:9 4)
at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiInvocationWrap per_Stub.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiClientIntercep tor.doInvoke(RmiClientInterceptor.java:400)
at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiClientIntercep tor.doInvoke(RmiClientInterceptor.java:344)
at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiClientIntercep tor.invoke(RmiClientInterceptor.java:259)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethod Invocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java :185)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopPro xy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:209)
at $Proxy0.settle(Unknown Source)
[CUT]
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl .java:333)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSoc ketImpl.java:195)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.j ava:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.j ava:366)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:366)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:179)
at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.cre ateSocket(RMIDirectSocketFactory.java:22)
at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.cre ateSocket(RMIMasterSocketFactory.java:128)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEnd point.java:569)
... 24 more

Finally figured this out. RMI uses the following method to obtain a server hostname:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/...ml#nethostname

In my case the IP returned was 127.0.0.1 due to the setup on my linux box
(see http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=790132).
By changing the OS setup i got the correct external IP address returned.

Strange though that neither -Djava.rmi.server.host=$HOSTNAME nor -Djava.rmi.server.useLocalHostname=true did the job.

Hi

I too face same problem.

Did you get it working???
Please let me know.

Thanks,
Bindiya

I am having the exact same problem. Could you please post your exact changes to fix it? Thank You.

Well, since I didn't have time to wait for a reply, I went ahead and banged my head against it for a little while and figured out what to do.

After re-reading the links from thosmas' posts, I realized that it was the hosts file on the server that needed to be fixed.

If your hosts file has the first line as:

Code:

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127.0.0.1    localhost  {hostname}

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you must remove the {hostname} from that first line and add another line like:

Code:

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{actual ip address}  {hostname}

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That worked for me.

4 years later - but anyway... Unfortunately I can't muck with my /etc/hosts settings as if I remove the hostname from the entry for 127.0.0.1, other things will break (I know this because I had to add it in there to begin with to stop other things breaking!)

The "-Djava.rmi.server.host=$HOSTNAME" setting needs to be set in the invocation of the server binary that registers the service into the RMI registry.

In the most basic example, the RMI registry being on 192.168.56.1:

Code:

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user@server% rmiregistry &
user@server% java -Djava.rmi.server.host=192.168.56.1 example.Server
(listening...)

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Then on the client side (assuming it takes one argument specifying the server address):

Code:

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user@client% java example.Client 192.168.56.1

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