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Holger Rehn commented on DERBY-7107:
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[~bpendleton] Thank you for taking a look! Maybe I got that wrong, but for
example {code:java}NetworkServerControl.runtimeInfo(){code} is only useful when
called on an embedded server instance, right? And as all other connection
dependent methods of class NetworkServerControl it cannot be called under the
conditiones described above, so to me this definitly looks like a real bug.
Our use case, however, isn't too problematic. Our application starts an
embedded server and uses {code:java}NetworkServerControl.ping(){code} in a loop
to wait until the server is up and running. Currently it ends up looping until
hitting an internal timeout, causing the whole application to abort. The fix is
easy, I already modified our code to ping "localhost" instead (using reflection
to set the hostAddress field). This whole topic more or less only came up due
to the increasing number of customers and emplyees in home office.
> NetworkServerControl fails to connect to server started on INADDR_ANY
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> Key: DERBY-7107
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-7107
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Network Server
> Affects Versions: 10.14.2.0, 10.15.2.0
> Reporter: Holger Rehn
> Priority: Critical
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> If starting a NetworkServerControl on INADDR_ANY (0.0.0.0) it also uses this
> address when connecting to the running server instance (e.g. in method
> ping(), ...).
> Strictly speaking, INADDR_ANY isn't a valid target address. However, under
> normal circumstances, this works anyway. But if you have any "security"
> software in place that blocks such connections (Firewall or VPN, e.g. Cisco
> AnyConnect), you end up with an IOException:
> {code}Could not connect to Derby Network Server on host 0.0.0.0, port 1527:
> Permission denied: connect.{code}
> One simple fix would be to explicitly check the host address 'hostAddress' in
> NetworkServerControlImpl.setUpSocket() and if this is INADDR_ANY, use
> 'localhost' instead.
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