Hi Joe, i don't think that this is a firewall issue.
Before i start the two brokers netstat -tulpen | grep 6161 shows nothing. After starting activemq netstat shows: netstat -tulpen | grep 6161 tcp 0 0 :::61616 :::* LISTEN 1011 70984032 1510/java tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:61617 :::* LISTEN 1011 70984056 1510/java Now i check if i can reach broker 2 via telnet from broker 1 on the exact same port: telnet esf-proto-1 61617 Trying 172.18.154.26... telnet: connect to address 172.18.154.26: Connection refused So far, this would confirm your assumption, BUT if change http to tcp, the exact same telnet request works: telnet esf-proto-1 61617 Trying 172.18.154.26... Connected to esf-proto-1. Escape character is '^]'. �ActiveMQ� CacheSize CacheEnabledSizePrefixDisabledTcpNoDelayEnabledMaxInactivityDurationu0TightEncodingEnabledStackTraceEnabled^] Connection closed by foreign host. Then i switched on the highest debug-level in the broker, but none of the messages seem to be of any informative value: INFO DiscoveryNetworkConnector - Establishing network connection between from vm://localhost to http://esf-proto-2:61617 ........... WARN DiscoveryNetworkConnector - Could not start network bridge between: vm://localhost and: http://esf-proto-2:61617 due to: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused ........... Connection refused java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:366) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:180) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.java:86) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection.open(HttpConnection.java:651) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:628) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:497) at org.apache.activemq.transport.http.HttpClientTransport.doStart(HttpClientTransport.java:181) at org.apache.activemq.util.ServiceSupport.start(ServiceSupport.java:48) at org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportFilter.start(TransportFilter.java:56) at org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportFilter.start(TransportFilter.java:56) at org.apache.activemq.network.DemandForwardingBridgeSupport.start(DemandForwardingBridgeSupport.java:207) at org.apache.activemq.network.DiscoveryNetworkConnector.onServiceAdd(DiscoveryNetworkConnector.java:101) at org.apache.activemq.transport.discovery.simple.SimpleDiscoveryAgent$1.run(SimpleDiscoveryAgent.java:161) Furthermore, i can exclude any kind of firewall between the two machines. Any more ideas? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Standard-http-connector-example-not-working--tp16937377s2354p16940962.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.