[jira] [Commented] (QPID-3375) qpid-route does not resolve hostname and this causes problems with localhost among others

["William Henry (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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William Henry commented on QPID-3375:
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Andrew,  I'll take another look at this as soon as I can sit back down with the code.

I will:

1) Allow localhost then both dest and source are the localhost.
2) Check the gai_error to see if my handling of it is correct. Currently when I catch it I throw an exception.

Thanks

> qpid-route does not resolve hostname and this causes problems with localhost among others
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: QPID-3375
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-3375
>             Project: Qpid
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: python tools
>    Affects Versions: 0.10
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: William Henry
>            Assignee: Gordon Sim
>              Labels: qpid-route
>         Attachments: qpid-route, qpid-route.diff
>
>
> All the examples for Federation and qpid-route use localhost. For a multihost environment this is not a good idea.
> 1. 'localhost':<port> can end up in the routing table of remote host erroneously.
> 2. Resolving localhost doesn't help as you'd end up with 127.0.0.1 in the route erroneously
> 3. Even non localhost names don't get resolved and checked.
> Here is the test I was performing. 
> I was doing some playing/testing with federation and I used two machines: my
> laptop (sligo) and a remote machine (buzz).  I ran three brokers: 2 on sligo on
> ports 5672 and 5682 and one on remote on port 5682.
> From sligo I set up some links between all the brokers.
> (The problem has already occurred on the links above. Listing the routes will show the problem. But we'll go on)
> From sligo I set up a topic exchange on each broker:
> $ qpid-config -a localhost:5672 add exchange topic T.Prod
> $ qpid-config -a localhost:5682 add exchange topic T.Prod
> $ qpid-config -a buzz.somedomain.com:5682 add exchange topic T.Prod
> On sligo I set up dynamic routes from source localhost:5672 to localhost:5682
> and buzz.somedomain.com:5682.
> When I list the routes from sligo I see:
> $ qpid-route route list localhost:5682
> localhost:5682 localhost:5672 T.Prod <dynamic>
> $ qpid-route route list buzz.somedomain.com:5682
> buzz.somedomain.com:5682 localhost:5672 T.Prod <dynamic>
> When I run example program drain on localhost:5682 on sligo I get the messages sent using the spout example program to default broker on sligo (on 5672).
> When I run drain on buzz I don't see anything.
> I see references to "localhost:5672" in the trace output of buzz's broker.  This is BAD!
> We need qpid-route to resolve hostname before passing the arg to the remote
> broker.
> (In the meantime we might want to warn users of using 'localhost' with
> qpid-route across different hosts.)
> I will attach a diff and a new version of qpid-route for review.

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