> Is coldfusion unable resolve my webservice call from a remote > location because I do not have my DNS server setup?
Yes, I think so. In the meantime, don't forget that you can put temporary entries in the hosts file of the resolving machine. Thanks, Dave for your insight to this problem. I am grateful for any further help you or anyone else can give me. Currently I do not have a DNS server running. I also do not have temporary entries in the hosts file of the resloving machine. Do you have any ideas as to why coldfusion is able to processes every other template and component on my server with no problems? (I can access all my pages like: http://myIP/myCFpage.cfm) I can even consume my handcoded webservices (w/ http://myIP/whatever.cfc?WSDL) on this server....as long as the consuming page is also located on this same server. The problem occurs when I try to consume that webservice from a template that is on a different coldfusion server. That is when I get the axis error / hostname of the server is not being resolved. Dave, I am confused as to what all this has to do with DNS or my DNS server rather? If DNS is simply a pointer to an IP address, then doesn't that mean a call to my 'readable domain name' (eg http://www.mysite.com) resolves to my private IP? For example, when I browse http://www.mysite.com the request goes out and in the end pulls the information from http://myIP/index.cfm ? I have been under the impression that one can get a 'private' server up and running and work out all the kinks before 'turning on' DNS to make it all go 'public.' Am I mistaken in the case of coldfusion and remote webservices? In my case at the present state, coldfusion seems to perform perfectly with no DNS integration...I do everything by IP and it all seems to work. Templates work, CFCs work, custom tags work, and CFCs implemented as webservices work.....when they are invoked by a template on the same machine. So it seems unusual to me that the problem lies in DNS when Im invoking the webservice in its IP form? Is it not essentially the same thing calling http://www.mysite.com/webservice.cfc?WSDL and http://myIP/webservice.cfc?WSDL ? To put it a different way, if this code (that is copied below) is in a template residing on the same computer as the webservice, the webservice is able to be invoked and I get no problems. I get a string returned that says, "Hello there, Jonathan" <cfinvoke webservice="http://myIP/webservice?wsdl"; method="sayHello" aName="Jonathan" returnVariable="THE_RESPONSE"> However, when I copy this above code and put it on another coldfusion server (ie http://myIP2 that is located on different computer than the webservice) I produce the error. I am still confused as to why this is happening, ie why can I consume webservices via IP address sometimes but not others. I guess my question now is, why does everything else on the cf server work without DNS...except this one thing? This leads me to think that the solution may not involve the setting up of a DNS server. Hey Im all for setting up DNS on my server if that means remote webservice calls will fall into place. Im willing to try anything to get these servers up...but just from my limited knowledge I am not 100% sure that when DNS is up and working, the problem will be solved. Can anyone give me any additional reassurance or helpful hints? The fact is Im going to implement DNS sooner or later...but I would like to wait and get things operational without going public on my domain name. I should also mention that other applications (such as a small .NET desktop and website app) are also unable to consume my webservices....its not just the pages on my 'other' coldfusion server that are having the trouble. Im just trying to brainstorm any ideas for why this error is occuring and what I can do to fix it. Thanks for any help from anyone. Jonathan --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=38 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:14:3702 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:14 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.14 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
