| Summary | Client unable to connect to Orbix server due to excessive location forward messages |
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| Article Number | 14903 |
| Environment | Solaris Orbix 6.x Orbix Java Runtime |
| Question/Problem Description | Client unable to connect to Orbix server due to excessive location forward messages Expired certificate on Orbix server causes client to receive misleading location forward exception Client receives location forward exception while trying to communicate with secure Orbix server org.omg.CORBA.TRANSIENT: exceeded invocation forwarding limit: 20 vmcid: 0x49540000 minor code: 257 completed: No |
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| Cause | If a client is trying to reach an indirect persistent Orbix server using TLS encryption and said server holds a certificate that has expired, the locator will cycle through a series of LOCATION_FORWARD requests and fail ultimately sending back to the client an exception indicating that a maximum number of location forward requests has been exceeded. In reality, the expired certificate is what's causing the problem, but for security reasons information about certificates will not be sent back to the requesting client. |
| Resolution | Ensure all certificates on the server side are valid and also verify they have not expired |
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| Created date: | 06 September 2011 |
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| Last Modified: | 13 February 2013 |
| Last Published: | 23 June 2012 |
| First Published date: | 10 September 2011 |
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