You need to change the format for the uri to specify the group via a parameter. This is the upshot of the resolution to http://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-1489 - check out the detail in the comments.
The required change is of the form: - <networkConnector uri="multicast://${groupId}"/> + <networkConnector uri="multicast://default?group=${groupId}"/> 2008/12/18 MaenXe <m...@docmagic.com>: > > Anyone else having this same issue? We have 4 different environments with 4 > different broker networks setup, we can't use the same multicast name for > all of them, and we'd prefer not to spell out each server name in the config > file, it's not very flexible. This smells like a bug. > > M@ > > > > MaenXe wrote: >> >> I'm having an issue with my Network of Brokers configuration and an >> upgrade to 5.2. The configuration we had in 5.1(which worked fine) was: >> >> <networkConnectors> >> <networkConnector name="dev-jms-nc" >> uri="multicast://dev-jms"/> >> </networkConnectors> >> >> and >> >> <transportConnectors> >> <transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://dev-jms2:61616" >> discoveryUri="multicast://dev-jms"/> >> </transportConnectors> >> >> >> Now in 5.2, it doesn't like the uri and/or discoveryUri and we get the >> following errors logged and the broker does not start: >> >> ERROR BrokerService - Failed to start ActiveMQ JMS >> Message Broker. Reason: java.net.UnknownHostException: dev-jms: dev-jms >> >> If I change the uri to "multicast://default" or "multicast://testing" it >> seems to work just fine. Neither of those is a valid hostname, so I don't >> know why it doesn't like dev-jms. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> M@ >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/NPE%3A-java.net.UnknownHostException-after-installing-5.2%2C-same-config-as-5.1-tp21026541p21079811.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- http://blog.garytully.com Open Source SOA http://FUSESource.com