Hi Chris, I think you can turn that check off in xrootd's config file. IN2P3 had to do that due to a similar problem (although it might have been the other way round, the server in the subdomain). regards, Stephen. On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Brew, CAJ (Chris) wrote: > Hi, > > We have a problem with the way xrootd decides whether a connection is a WAN > connection. > > Some of the worker nodes at RAL are in the gridpp.rl.ac.uk domain and our > xrootd servers are in the higher level domain rl.ac.uk. > > Jobs running on the machines in the gridpp subdomain fail because the refuse > to connect to the different domain. > > lcg0338 - ~/work/anal21 $ KanCollUtil > /store/PRskims/R14/14.4.0d/BFourBody/02/BFourBody_0291.01.root > 041025 11:33:48 14069 Warn: XTNetConn::checkUrlDomain - Skipping url > [root://csflnx108.rl.ac.uk///store/PRskims/R14/14.4.0d/BFourBody/02/BFourBod > y_0291.01.root.01.root]. Its domain [.rl.ac.uk] differs from the client's > one [.gridpp.rl.ac.uk]. > 041025 11:33:48 14069 Err : XTNetFile::CTOR - All server > specified are out of the client's domain. Going into zombie state. > ERR Could not open a file expected to contain the event header: > ERR LFN = > /store/PRskims/R14/14.4.0d/BFourBody/02/BFourBody_0291.01.root.01.root > ERR PFN = > root://bbr-rdr01.rl.ac.uk//store/PRskims/R14/14.4.0d/BFourBody/02/BFourBody_ > 0291.01.root.01.root > ERR Check collection name and access method... > > Trying to fix this by adding Root.XTNetFileAllowWanConnect: 1 to an > .rootrc file changes the error but does not fix the problem. > > lcg0338 - ~/work/anal21 $ KanCollUtil > /store/PRskims/R14/14.4.0d/BFourBody/02/BFourBody_0291.01.root > 041025 11:36:21 14080 Err : XTNetConn::handleServerError - Redirection to > a server out-of-domain disallowed. Abort > Aborted > > This is going to cause jobs to randomly fail at RAL, could the client be > fixed to recognise that subdomains are not WAN connections. > > Thanks, > Chris. > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [log in to unmask] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/