Re: Log4Net and Windows 7 - SOLUTION FOUND!

[KazMax <an...@kazmax.co.uk>]

Via Google I found the following article. As soon as I had entered that
UdpAppender for my Log4Net installation it started working:

http://markmail.org/message/2nlxkf5i6v3xvda7#query:+page:1+mid:2nlxkf5i6v3xvda7+state:results

IPV6 is the cause of this problem. Thanks for the help to get my onto this
solution!

Andrew


KazMax wrote:
> 
> For anyone who may be interested, doing a quick Google using the following
> words provides a rich set of interesting articles on this topic:
> 
> log4net ipv6 udp appender
> 
> Definitely looks like IPV6 needing the eye of Mordor focussed on it.....
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> KazMax wrote:
>> 
>> That stands to reason. Whilst I am aware of IPV6 (it has been around a
>> few years but hasn't been widely implemented) I haven't actually had to
>> deal with it in earnest before now. I guess now seems like a good time to
>> learn!
>> 
>> When you say "find the patch", is there such a thing? If there is I'm not
>> sure whether the patch would be for the operating system, Log4Net, or
>> something else?
>> 
>> Thanks for your comments - very helpful to point me in the right
>> direction (to begin with).
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>> 
>> steven higgan-3 wrote:
>>> 
>>> There is this _very_ old bug in the udp appender code that crops up if
>>> you have the IPV6 protocol installed on the listening machine.
>>> 
>>> Your options wait for a blessed release, find the patch and apply it
>>> yourself, try your luck with head.
>>> 
>>> Mabye a forth option is to make a UdpAppenderThatWorks based off the
>>> UdpAppender class and use that.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:12 PM, KazMax<an...@kazmax.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a software project which I was previously developing under
>>>> Windows XP.
>>>> I recently upgraded to Windows 7 (64bit release candidate) and
>>>> transferred
>>>> the project across. Everything works perfectly, except Log4Net. And I
>>>> can't
>>>> get it working.
>>>>
>>>> I had previously defined my Log4Net setup to record messages in both a
>>>> log
>>>> file and also sent via UDP to Log4View. The logging to file works fine,
>>>> but
>>>> no messages ever make it to Log4View.
>>>>
>>>> I immediately thought "firewall issue". I couldn't find a set of
>>>> firewall
>>>> rules which would allow the UDP (or TCP) traffic from Log4Net, so I
>>>> switched
>>>> the firewall off - it made no difference, I still didn't get any
>>>> messages
>>>> from Log4Net.
>>>>
>>>> I've had broadly similar problems with SMTP/POP3/IMAP for a Mail Server
>>>> I
>>>> was trying to install on Windows 7 (and also Windows Server 2008 which
>>>> is
>>>> based upon the same code base), in that I couldn't get that mail server
>>>> to
>>>> connect to the outside world.
>>>>
>>>> Is there something I'm missing with Windows 7?
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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