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Connection Refused: Thrift Client on JRuby 1.7.3

I am trying to use a Thrift client on JRuby 1.7.3. The error message is always

Could not connect to ::1:55674: Connection refused - Connection refused

I can always connect successfully on ruby-1.9.3. After much Googling, it appears that the Thrift client had an issue with JRuby, but it's supposed to be fixed in 1.6.7.

How should I fix this? Is this a known issue?

Solution

  • Found it!

    I was creating my Thrift::ServerSocket using ::1. MRI clients will work with this (doesn't matter if host is set to localhost, ::1, or 127.0.0.1. JRuby clients will not, and will complain about refused connections.

    Next, I was creating my Thrift::Client using ::1. Again, JRuby doesn't like it.

    Changing every thing to localhost fixed it. I don't really understand what is going on, but java is clearly using IPv6.

    >lsof -i :56990
COMMAND  PID  USER   FD   TYPE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
java    4441 codex   31u  IPv6 0t0  TCP localhost:56990 (LISTEN)
java    4441 codex   36u  IPv6 0t0  TCP localhost:56990->localhost:50439 (ESTABLISHED)
java    4875 codex   31u  IPv6 0t0  TCP localhost:50439->localhost:56990 (ESTABLISHED)