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Summary This article clarifies the impact of IPv6 being enabled on a Windows 2008 Server machine running Orbix 6.3.4 when the machine is not connected to the LAN.
Article Number 31430
Environment Orbix 6.3.4 Windows Server 2008 R2
Question/Problem Description Unable to connect to an Orbix 6.3.4 Corba Naming Service through the Orbix locator on localhost when machine is off the network.
Unable to connect to Orbix Naming Service when using the corbaloc string corbaloc:iiop:1.2@127.0.0.1:3075/NameService on localhost when machine is off the network.
Clarifying Information
Error Message WARNING: "IOP00410201: (COMM_FAILURE) Connection failure: socketType: IIOP_CLEAR_TEXT; hostname: 127.0.0.1; port: 3075 org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE: vmcid: SUN minor code: 201 completed: No at com.sun.corba.se.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.connectFailure(ORBUtilSystemException.java:2172) at com.sun.corba.se.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.connectFailure(ORBUtilSystemException.java:2193) at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java: at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java: at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelContactInfoImpl.createConnection(SocketOrChannelContactIn at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientRequestDispatcherImpl.beginRequest(CorbaClientRequestDispatche at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientDelegateImpl.request(CorbaClientDelegateImpl.java:118) at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientDelegateImpl.is_a(CorbaClientDelegateImpl.java:211) at org.omg.CORBA.portable.ObjectImpl._is_a(ObjectImpl.java:112) at org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtHelper.narrow(NamingContextExtHelper.java:73)
Defect/Enhancement Number
Cause This issue is caused if IPv6 is enabled on the machine
Resolution Disable IPv6 completely through the Windows registry editor.
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Created date: 26 April 2012
Last Modified: 13 February 2013
Last Published: 26 April 2012
First Published date: 26 April 2012

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