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Re: Newbie question: fresh default Mac OSX ins....

Posted By: Art Kagel
Date: Monday, 7 May 2012, at 6:29 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Newbie question: fresh default Mac OSX ins.... (Laird Nelson)

Try putting the hard IPv6 address of the machine into the JDBC URL.

Art

Art S. Kagel
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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Laird Nelson <ljnelson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Fernando Nunes <domusonline@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Either we're not looking at something obvious or something wrong is
> > happening....
> >
>
> I agree.
>
> > My suggestions:
> >
> > - Check with netstat if the IP/port is in "LISTEN" mode
> >
>
> It is; interestingly it's tcp6:
>
> bash-3.2$ whoami
> informix
> bash-3.2$ netstat -a | grep LISTEN
> tcp4 0 0 *.4242 *.* LISTEN
> tcp4 0 0 localhost.4243 *.* LISTEN
> tcp6 0 0 laird-nelsons-ma.dr_in *.* LISTEN
> tcp6 0 0 laird-nelsons-ma.ol_in *.* LISTEN
> [snip]
>
> Recall that $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts.ol_informix1170 is being used:
>
> bash-3.2$ whoami
> informix
> bash-3.2$ env | sort | grep INFORMIX
> INFORMIXDIR=/Applications/IBM/informix
> INFORMIXSERVER=ol_informix1170
> INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/Applications/IBM/informix/etc/sqlhosts.ol_informix1170
>
> ....and that it says to use the ol_informix1170 service:
>
> bash-3.2$ cat etc/sqlhosts.ol_informix1170
> ol_informix1170 onsoctcp Laird-Nelsons-MacBook-Pro.local ol_informix1170
> dr_informix1170 drsoctcp Laird-Nelsons-MacBook-Pro.local dr_informix1170
>
> ....and that is of course present in /etc/services:
>
> ash-3.2$ grep ol_informix /etc/services
> ol_informix1170 15222/tcp
>
> ....so if I'm stitching this pinball machine together correctly, that tells
> me that I should have a listener on Laird-Nelsons-MacBook-Pro.local using a
> TCP port of 15222.
>
> I would think therefore that provided that oninit processes are up:
>
> bash-3.2$ ps -ef | grep oninit
> 502 815 1 0 0:00.17 ?? 0:00.47 oninit -wv
>
> 0 816 815 0 0:00.17 ?? 0:00.24 oninit -wv
>
> 0 817 816 0 0:00.08 ?? 0:00.09 oninit -wv
>
> 0 818 816 0 0:00.08 ?? 0:00.09 oninit -wv
>
> 0 819 816 0 0:00.08 ?? 0:00.10 oninit -wv
>
> 0 820 816 0 0:00.04 ?? 0:00.04 oninit -wv
>
> 0 821 816 0 0:00.07 ?? 0:00.08 oninit -wv
>
> 0 822 816 0 0:00.07 ?? 0:00.09 oninit -wv
>
> 0 823 816 0 0:00.34 ?? 0:00.51 oninit -wv
>
> 0 824 816 0 0:00.04 ?? 0:00.06 oninit -wv
>
> 0 825 816 0 0:00.04 ?? 0:00.06 oninit -wv
>
> 0 826 816 0 0:00.04 ?? 0:00.06 oninit -wv
>
> 0 827 816 0 0:00.04 ?? 0:00.06 oninit -wv
> 502 5163 5101 0 0:00.00 ttys000 0:00.00 grep oninit
>
> ....which they are as you can see above I should be able to telnet to
> Laird-Nelsons-MacBook-Pro.local, port 15222 which I can:
>
> bash-3.2$ telnet Laird-Nelsons-MacBook-Pro.local 15222
> Trying 192.168.1.102...
> telnet: connect to address 192.168.1.102: Connection refused
> Trying fe80::9227:e4ff:feed:59eb...
> Connected to laird-nelsons-macbook-pro.local.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ^]
> telnet> quit
> Connection closed.
>
> Now, I lied a little bit. First I actually tried this:
>
> bash-3.2$ telnet localhost 15222
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> Trying ::1...
> telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
> Trying fe80::1...
> telnet: connect to address fe80::1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
>
> ....but lo and behold that did not work.
>
> I looked at my Symantec Firewall that is running on my Mac (part of my
> cable provider's TOS) and it reports that there is a program named oninit
> listening on port 15222. However, the local IP address is notable for
> being in ip6 form, whereas almost all the other entries in the list are in
> ip4 form. I've attempted to attach a screenshot showing this; I have no
> earthly idea what might happen to it on the way to the forums/email
> gateway. The local IP address so listed is as follows:
>
> fe80::9227:e4ff:feed:59eb
>
> Port 15222 is open to all connections (says my firewall).
>
> Other entries in the list are notable for listing their local IP addresses
> as 0.0.0.0, which looks much more familiar to me.
>
> (oninit is also listed in this output as listening on the same ip6 host,
> port 9521.)
>
> Telnetting to any ip6 host so listed or fe80::1 doesn't work. Adding
> explicit allowance rules in my firewall for such addresses doesn't work.
>
> I had a brief momentary flash this morning where a connection did get
> through. Then after zero configuration changes on my part, it failed again
> about 2 minutes later. I've since restarted Informix several times over to
> no avail.
>
> - When it fails try to run:
> > onmode -P stop ol_informix1170
> >
>
> This hung the first time I ran it. Then I went back and did a telnet to
> Laird-Nelsons-MacBook-Pro.local port 15222, got in, and when I cancelled
> out of that this job completed on its own.
>
> > onmode -P start ol_informix1170
> >
>
> This ran fine.
>
> None of this had any effect; a JDBC URL of
>
>
> jdbc:informix-sqli://Laird-Nelsons-MacBook-Pro.local:1522/sysmaster:INFORMIXSERVER=ol_informix1170
> still doesn't connect because the connection is refused.
>
> However, now the message output is this at the end:
>
> 17:21:10 Listen thread shutdown SUCCESS
> 17:22:06 listener-thread: err = -25582: oserr = 4: errstr = : Network
> connection is broken.
> System error = 4.
> 17:23:56 Starting listen thread for sqlhosts server ol_informix1170
> 17:23:56 Listen thread init SUCCESS
> 17:24:30 listener-thread: err = -25582: oserr = 4: errstr = : Network
> connection is broken.
> System error = 4.
>
> Thank you so much for your help.
>
> Best,
> Laird
>
> --
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>
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