[erlang-questions] : : : First send from JInterface ok, second one blocs?? FOUND THE PROBLEM

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:34:07AM +0200, Alexander Lamb wrote:
> Is it important to dig further? Or can we (for the time being) suggest  
> that on MacOSX NOT to use short names?
> 
> Of course, I can setup a test case, but being new to Erlang, I might  
> not be looking for the right things.
> Tell me if you want me to check some additional info!
> 
> To answer a previous question from Raimo, I traced the objects I use  
> to connect (especially the mailbox) and I can confirm that my test was  
> using only one object. Therefore, we are clearly in a situation where  
> upon setting up the connection the lookup works one way and for  
> following lookups it works in another way.

Ok, that is strange, might be a bug.

It is also strange that short names does not
work at all. It does on other platforms.

But I do not feel a strong urge to investigate it
right now. If long names works on MacOS X we can
leave it at that for a the time being, but eventually
we will have to look into it...


> 
> Alex
> 
> Le 14 mai 08 à 09:25, Vlad Dumitrescu a écrit :
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Alexander Lamb <alexander.lamb@REDACTED 
> > > wrote:
> > Now, my impression is that this is a special effect of MacOSX (I am
> > running the 10.5.2 on Intel with the latest version of Erlang). It is
> > probable that the way name resolution works locally (the two nodes on
> > my desktop) is different from Linux.
> >
> > This could be the reason. Working with ErlIDE, I got many bug  
> > reports about the connection between Java and Erlang not working on  
> > OSX. I think almost all of them were caused by this mismatch between  
> > how Java and Erlang look up hosts by name. We had to use long names  
> > for the Erlang nodes.
> >
> > This doesn't really answer why it did work the first time. Like  
> > Raimo said, maybe the connection is retried several times. The  
> > connection can be closed for several reasons, for example if data  
> > that can't be decoded is received. Hard to tell without any  
> > additional info.
> >
> > regards,
> > Vlad
> >
> >
> >
> 
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