[Swift-devel] gram4 detecting own host identity

[Ian Foster]

Ben:

I'd recommend talking to your colleagues in the GRAM team--Stu Martin  
and Martin Feller in particular.

Ian.

On May 18, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Ben Clifford wrote:

>
> (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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