OIL and Firewall

[imreh_zoltan]

Hi

I'm using jboss 3.0.0 behind a firewall. I have made the following setting:

- set free the 1099,1098,4444,8888 ports
(8888 is the which I set for OIL to use)
- set java.rmi.server.homename = my external address

Everything goes fine till I'm not working with the OIL. I've checked the inkoming addresses and when I'm using the 1099, 1098, 4444, I'm getting the right external address, which was set, by java.rmi.server.hostname. When I want to connect to the JbossMQ I'm getting the localaddress. Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Regards,

Zoli

[adrian.brock]

OIL won't work through a firewall, it opens a socket
on the client for use by the server.
You should use UIL.

Neither uses RMI, so you will need to set the
attribute "BindAddress" along with the port
in jbossmq-service.xml

It sounds like your /etc/hosts has your host name
mapped to 127.0.0.1?

Regards,
Adrian

[imreh_zoltan]

Hi,

I've tryd to use the UIL with the following properties

1. BindAddress local ip address
2. Port 8091

, and I've made the following changes in the host file:

I have commented the line 127.0.0.1 localhost
A new line with my internal IP "external domainname"

But the in the client I'm still getting the local IP address instead of the firewall's address. What am I doing wrong?

Regards,
Zoli

[imreh_zoltan]

Hi there,

finally I've figured out, how can jboss messaging be used through a firewall. Here is the complete recepy:

1. In hosts you have to map your internal IP-Address in your external domain name
2. You should use UIL for messaging
3. Set up UIL with BindAdress = your external domain name
and ServerBindPort = arbitary port that is free in the firewall
4. You must decompile the class org.jboss.mq.il.uil.UILServerIL.class and rewrite the createConnection() method as follows:
4.a. from the InetAdress variable wich initializes the socket that is created. Make another InetAdress with the hostname from the original InetAdress then initialize the socket with the second InetAddress. Compile the class and copy back to its place.
4.b. There are actually two classes one of them in the client/jbossmq-client.jar and one server/your_configuration/lib/jbossmq.jar

Both have to be replaced!!!

You can also download my attached version of this class.

Regards,
Zoli