Server can't find itself

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Hi folks,

I am trying to trace an error that I get when the Domino server starts:

Error connecting to server SER2/ACME: The remote server is not a known TCP/IP host.

And in this case SER2 is the server that is starting. So it cannot find itself.

For the life of me I can’t find where it comes from. I checked the following:

Removed almost all the tasks, no help

Removed all the Internet site docs, no help

Checked the port definitions, no help

Is there a way to do more logging and tracing, so I can see what process causes the error?

I really need to remove this error because I think it is causing crashes in Domdoc.

Thanks in advance.

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Subject: Server can’t find itself

Does it only give this error when the server is starting? I have seen a possible reason in Technote 1090447. The server may have to open connections to itself for internal processing (like Directory Assistance in the Technote above). This happens to me only at server startup. I believe that what is happening is that the Domino server (and specifically the database server jobs) hasn’t started fully so no NRPC connections can be accepted. After all of this has started, the server should have no problems connecting to itself.

Chris Whisonant

http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com

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Subject: Server can’t find itself

Thanks guys.

I will check the solutions and let you know what worked.

Cheers, Lykle

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Subject: RE: Server can’t find itself

Hmm, the solution was: Pull out a cable.In this system we had two network cards. We thought we wanted to split the in house traffic and the external traffic.

We did not need to do it, so one card was kind of idle. After I disabled it, the problem and the error msg went away.

Solved.

In this case.

Thanks guys.

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Subject: Server can’t find itself

Check your dns (or local hosts file) and make sure that SER2 is resolvable to the ip address of the server itself. If it’s not resolvable or resolves to the wrong ip address it will fail to find itself.

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Subject: RE: Server can’t find itself

HI,try putting this line in your notes.ini

TCPIP_TCPIPAddress=0,server_ip :1352

cheers

E.H.Y