How to configure an Orbix domain to use fully qualified host names rather than short host names or IP addresses

Dominique Sacre · 2013-05-17T17:44:00+00:00

Summary This article clarifies how to specify the address mode policy and configure an Orbix domain so that the IORs of the Orbix services contain fully qualified host names. Article Number 36645 Environment Orbix 6.3 All Supported Operating Systems Question/Problem Description How to configure an Orbix domain to use fully qualified host names (e.g. myhostname.mycompany.com) rather than short host names (e.g. myhostname) or IP addresses? Clarifying Information Error Message Defect/Enhancement Number Cause Resolution When running itconfigure and creating the Orbix domain in non-GUI mode use the "-hostnamePolicy" parameter to specify the address mode policy for IORs. The hostnamePolicy value can be one of the following: ip (IP addresses) localhost ('localhost'), localhost_ip ('127.0.0.1'), long (fully qualified hostname), short (unqualified hostname—the default). When running itconfigure and creating the Orbix domain in GUI mode use the "Address Mode Policy for Object References" setting in the first step (Domain Defaults) of itconfigure one of the above values can be selected.Use the hostnamePolicy "long" for generating fully qualified hostnames in IORs. Workaround Notes Attachment Created date: 04 December 2012 Last Modified: 12 February 2013 Last Published: 04 December 2012 First Published date: 04 December 2012 #Orbix#KnowledgeDocs

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Dominique Sacre
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Summary	This article clarifies how to specify the address mode policy and configure an Orbix domain so that the IORs of the Orbix services contain fully qualified host names.
Article Number	36645
Environment	Orbix 6.3 All Supported Operating Systems
Question/Problem Description	How to configure an Orbix domain to use fully qualified host names (e.g. myhostname.mycompany.com) rather than short host names (e.g. myhostname) or IP addresses?
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Resolution	When running itconfigure and creating the Orbix domain in non-GUI mode use the "-hostnamePolicy" parameter to specify the address mode policy for IORs. The hostnamePolicy value can be one of the following: ip (IP addresses) localhost ('localhost'), localhost_ip ('127.0.0.1'), long (fully qualified hostname), short (unqualified hostname—the default). When running itconfigure and creating the Orbix domain in GUI mode use the "Address Mode Policy for Object References" setting in the first step (Domain Defaults) of itconfigure one of the above values can be selected. Use the hostnamePolicy "long" for generating fully qualified hostnames in IORs.
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