[Swift-devel] gram4 detecting own host identity

[Ben Clifford]

(I just sent this by accident to the secret SWFT list - it was intended 
for this list, swift-devel)

A couple (or maybe three) times in the past few days I've seen the GRAM4 
submission be extremely bad at detecting its own identity to use in 
WS-Notification subscriptions - it seems to end up using 'localhost' 
rather than the global-scope hostname...

Here is one from andrew.bsd.uchicago.edu, for example (it also happens on 
wiggum and on my laptop):

<ns1:ConsumerReference><wsa:Address>https://localhost:50000/ 
wsrf/services/NotificationConsumerService</wsa:Address>

[...]

These machines, as far as any sane unix person would think, are correctly 
identifying themselves with the hostname command, have proper forward and 
reverse DNS set up, and the like; pretty much everything else can figure 
out the local identity correctly; so the workaround 'set GLOBUS_HOSTNAME 
to your hostname' seems unnecessarily complicated in these cases.

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