connection exception when JNDI over http

[jieshengz]

I just want to do a simple JNDI connect from a client to server. My client is inside an interal Lan. Its is IP is like 10.0.0.35. My server has a public IP address and is a redhat 8.0 linux box.
I can connect to server correctly since I could retrieve the
http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080/jmx-console page .
However when I try to connect through JNDI/http, I have no luck.
My code is very simple, it is like this

Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
 table.put(
 "java.naming.factory.initial",
 "org.jboss.naming.HttpNamingContextFactory");
 table.put(
 "java.naming.provider.url",
 "http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080/invoker/JNDIFactory");
 table.put(
 "java.naming.factory.url.pkgs",
 "org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");
 InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(table);

 TopicConnectionFactory conFactory =
 (TopicConnectionFactory) ctx.lookup("RMIConnectionFactory");

I got this exception
javax.naming.CommunicationException: Operation failed. Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:434)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:384)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:139)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:386)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:602)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.(HttpClient.java:303)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.(HttpClient.java:264)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:336)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:317)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:312)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:481)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:472)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:528)
at org.jboss.invocation.http.interfaces.Util.invoke(Util.java:101)
at org.jboss.invocation.http.interfaces.HttpInvokerProxy.invoke(HttpInvokerProxy.java:102)
at org.jboss.invocation.InvokerInterceptor.invoke(InvokerInterceptor.java:96)
at org.jboss.naming.interceptors.ExceptionInterceptor.invoke(ExceptionInterceptor.java:42)
at org.jboss.proxy.SecurityInterceptor.invoke(SecurityInterceptor.java:45)
at org.jboss.proxy.ClientMethodInterceptor.invoke(ClientMethodInterceptor.java:55)
at org.jboss.proxy.ClientContainer.invoke(ClientContainer.java:85)
at $Proxy0.lookup(Unknown Source)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:528)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:507)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:347)
at JNDIOverHTTP.main(JNDIOverHTTP.java:56)

Any help is really appreciated.

[jieshengz]

More information for this post.
For a regular naming lookup as below

Hashtable table = new Hashtable();
table.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory");
table.put("java.naming.provider.url", "jnp://xx.xx.xx.xx:1099");
table.put("java.naming.factory.url.pkgs",
"org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces");
ctx = new InitialContext(table);

conFactory =(TopicConnectionFactory) ctx.lookup("RMIConnectionFactory");
System.out.println(listNames(ctx));

everything works fine. I checked the /etc/hosts file. The external IP is mapped to the hostname correctly.

I had spent several days on this and have no luck.
Please help out

Thanks

[jieshengz]

Ok the problem is solved.
The key problem is that my hostname does not have a FQDN hostname. Therefore the http-invoker sends the hostname to my remote client which has no way to connect with it. All what I did is

replace
all <attri bute name="UseHostName">true
in the $JBOSS/server/default/deploy/http-invoker.sar/META-INF/jboss-service.xml
with
<attri bute name="UseHostName">false