Chat binding to *:4445 - WAS {Re: [Webct-admin] license keyed to secondary IP address of machine}

[Derek D. <di...@un...>]

Changing the topic here, but it is related to a multi-IP addressed
machine.  We are running into an issue with our two instances of WebCT
running on one box, but with apache binding to separate IP addresses.
(v3.1 and 3.6 on Solaris 8)

Today, I heard some people were having problems with the chat room.
Open investigation, I see that WebCT's chat script has a problem.  It
binds as "*:4445" by default.  This is fine on a one IP address
machine, but seems to cause problems on a machine with more than one
IP address.  (It sure does for the logs found under
webct/generic/public/chat/log.)  I know that I can change the port
numbers in each instance of WebCT, but I feel that is a hack.

Before I press this issue farther, do others agree that the chat
and whiteboard should look to see what address they are running under
and bind accordingly?

(I just noted another weirdism.  Why does the whiteboard use one port
for TCP and a different one for UDP.  You can use the same port number
for TCP and UDP.  See http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers for
a list of registered port numbers.  Does WebCT know that they are
using ports that already belong to other applications?)





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