RE: Win 2000 problems with http server

[Larry Velez]

 

Maybe ZoneAlarm swaps out or attaches itself to one of the core Winsock dlls in order to intercept or detect all tcp traffic.  This replacement may survive an uninstall and leave a not so fully tested ZoneAlarm dll in there.  Just a theory.

 

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Somdeth Souvanlasy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 7:42 PM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: RE: Win 2000 problems with http server

I have had similar problems on one of my Windows 2000 Professional machines, starting up orion server works fine, but when you access the default website (http://localhost) it causes the machine to reboot....  

What I found was that if I started the server, then started the orionconsole via

java -jar orionconsole.jar

and attached to the server, and then tested out the jdbc connections in the resources section

go to 'Global Application\Resources\Data Sources' and choose one of the datasources and click 'List Tables' (this functionality doesn't actually work - ie you won't see any tables (at least it didn't work for me), you'll see in the server console a java.lang.NullPointer exception - since the console is in beta, I assume this is not working properly)

 

BUT, what happens after this is that you can then connect to the default website and the machine does not reboot !!!!  It all works fine.....

 

Very weird behaviour indeed.   Don't ask me how I worked it out, but I just tried a few things and then it worked... I had to do the above steps, just running the orion console didn't work, I had to test out the jdbc connections....

 

Curiously, I have a couple of other Windows 2000 Professional machines with the exact same setup of orion, jdk, jdbc drivers etc, and they don't have this problem...  The machine that has the problem did previously have ZoneAlarm installed on it, but it was uninstalled....  Maybe ZoneAlarm puts something on the machine that causes a problem, but there are a whole lot of other different software packages that are installed on the machines, so it would be difficult to tell what is causing the problem without a full software compatibility check....

 

Somdeth

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of hanasaki
Sent: Friday, 5 January 2001 8:32 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Re: Win 2000 problems with http server

Well Zone Alarm - standard - is running. <was running>.  I totally uninstalled it but still have the same problem.  I even took out Norton antivirus - clean sweep - etc...

Any more ideas?
Are you saying that a localhost firewall + java can cause a crash?  Please explain.

Arno Grbac wrote:

 Are you running some kind of application level firewall? For example, running zone alarm prowill do just that. I'm running the same setup and all is fine. The server never goes down, ..well,it's been up for weeks now.Hope this helps.-arno

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:30 PM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Win 2000 problems with http server
 

I have two computers that are both experiencing the same problem.  They are both running Win 2000 Professional with jdk 1.3.0-c

Orion starts fine and seems to run ok with/without the console.  The Orion gui tools seem to run ok.

THE PROBLEM: connecting to the orion http server on port 80 causes the systems to crash and reboot.

- tried "-classic"
- tried orion 1.3.8 and 1.4

C:\>java -version
java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0-C, mixed mode)

C:\>