[mico-devel] Re: installation of mico failed

[Karel Gardas]

Hi,

MICO is quite picky about hostname/ip configuration unless you use 
-ORBNoResolve command-line parameter. This specify that IP should not be 
resolved back to host name. See orb/address.cc file for more information, 
especially InetAddress class implementation. Anyway, I agree with you that 
there should be some clear error message printed to the console before 
asserting in InetAddress code...

Cheers,
Karel
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Chris Yate wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We've had exactly the same issue with hosts files, both on the server
> (Redhat) and the client (Windows) although the client is using TAO.
> Now that we know the solution it's not a big problem!
>
> But why does MICO have to know the hostname? It seems quite
> unnecessary. What is wrong with just having the IP address(es)? I
> consider this to be a bug!!
> Having the correct IP Addresses in the hosts file on both the client
> and server is just a fairly easy workaround.
>
> Your thoughts? Is there a good reason for this, something which could
> be fixed in a future release?
>
> Chris
>
> On 10/10/06, Andrew Zinn <andrewzinn at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> This is something that would be useful in the INSTALL.txt documentation.  I
>> just helped a friend install MICO on a Fedora Core 5 machine.  I knew he 
>> had
>> to edit his hosts file, but it wasn't obvious to him.
>> 
>> Thanks for all the work put into MICO.  Since I haven't seen it listed, 
>> I'll
>> let you know I have MICO working with Linux 2.6 on x86_64 machines.
>> 
>> Andrew Zinn
>> 
>> >From: Karel Gardas <kgardas at objectsecurity.com>
>> >
> <SNIP>....
>> >
>> >don't focus your attention solely on DNS configuration. In fact I would
>> >rather recommend you to inspect your /etc/hosts file which Rudolf already
>> >suggested. The whole issue is that your machine of some name needs to be
>> >able to also get it's own IP address and to the machine IP you need to be
>> >able to get the machine name. For both these tasks /etc/hosts is perfectly
>> >enough, you just need to setup or even install your machine correctly.
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