I know that this comes up a lot and I have seen many posts on running JBoss behind a firewall. My understanding was that to get this working, you set the java.rmi.server.hostname property to the hostname that you want the server to hand out.
Under JBoss 3.2.2RC2, I would set this as an environment variable before starting the run.sh script.
export JAVA_OPTS='-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=name.external.com'
/jboss/bin/run.sh &
Under JBoss 3.2.2RC2, this worked well. Under JBoss 3.2.3, this isn't working completely. When the server starts up, you can see it using the hostname in the start-up output. Clients outside the firewall can connect to the server, but when they attempt to get a remote object (an EJB remote home object) they recieve a "Connection Refused" error, this error specifically mentions the external hostname. Clients are connecting to JBoss over HTTP.
This is a problem for our test server. I have purchased the JBoss documentation and I believe I have made all the necessary settings (which are few, I set the http invoker to use the host name and I set the java.rmi.server.hostname property). Is there an additional setting that I am unaware of? I have tried setting several properties as mentioned in other posts (setting java.rmi.server.useLocalHostname to false, setting jboss.bind.address explicitly), but these have not been helpful. I suspect that if everything worked fine under JBoss 3.2.2RC2, they should also work fine under JBoss 3.2.3.
My suspicion is that, despite my efforts, JBoss is handing out the non-routable IP address of the server machine and when the client tries to use that to connect, it is receiving this error. What I really need is for JBoss to *only* hand out the hostname. I would be interested to know if anyone has JBoss 3.2.3 running behind a firewall with external client connecting via HTTP.
Any comments or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thank You,
-- Miles
