WCF is not binding to the correct IP address - wcf

We have a WCF service deployed on a Windows 2003 server that is exhibiting some problems. The configuration is using wsHttpBinding and we are specifying the IP address. The services is being hosted by a Windows Service.
When we start the service up, most of the time it grabs the wrong IP address. A few times it bound to the correct address only to drop that binding and go to the other address (there are 2) bound to the NIC after processing for a short while.
It is currently using port 80 (we've configured IIS to bind to only 1 address via httpcfg) although we have tried it using different ports with the same results.
When the Windows Service starts hosting the WCF service, the properties show that it is being bound to the correct address; however, tcpview shows that it is indeed listening on the incorrect address.
Here is the portion of the config that sets up tehe baseAddress. The one that gets bound to ends up being .4 instead of .9
<services>
<service name="Service.MyService"
behaviorConfiguration="serviceBehavior">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://xx.xx.xx.9:80/" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
<endpoint address="MyService"
binding="wsHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="WSHttpBinding_IMyService"
contract="Service.IMyService" />
<endpoint address="mex"
binding="mexHttpBinding"
contract="IMetadataExchange" />
</service>
</services>
Is there some other configuration that needs to be set?
Is there a tool that can help track down where this is getting bound to the wrong address?

Your WCF configuration looks OK to me. This might be an issue with the binding order of your NIC cards. Make sure that the NIC with correct address is first. Here is an article that discuss how to set and view nic binding orders:
http://theregime.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/how-to-setview-the-nic-bind-order-in-windows/

The issue seems to be ISS related. Here is the description about the error your getting from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/ddf72ae0-aa1e-48c9-88d1-10bae1e87e4f.mspx?mfr=true
This error is logged to the event log when HTTP.sys parses the IP inclusion list and finds that all of the entries in the list are invalid. If this happens, as the description in Table 11.15 notes, HTTP.sys listens to all IP addresses.
You can also check the following thread which talks about a similiar issue
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=534174
Hope this helps.

We had the same issue and this feature helped us to solve our problem :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.hostnamecomparisonmode.aspx
Hope this help.

More information: I removed the xx.xx.xx.4 IP address from the NIC altogether and turned off IIS. Now when I try to start the service it fails and I find this in the System event log.
Description:
Unable to bind to the underlying transport for xx.xx.xx.4:80. The IP Listen-Only list may contain a reference to an interface which may not exist on this machine. The data field contains the error number.
My configuration file still has the xx.xx.xx.9 baseAddress setting.

One more piece of informatoin. If we change the binding to use NetTcp instead of WsHttp it binds to the correct address on port 80. Changing it back to WsHttp it goes back to the incorrect IP address.

BaseAddress is ignored. You need to set a host header under IIS.

Related

how does my net.tcp wcf services work without specifying PortSharingEnabled in the binding?

I read all over the msdn where it says to enable port sharing : The port sharing service should be started and my net.tcp binding should specify 'portSharingEnabled = True'.
I also see that net.tcp binding documentation shows the default value for portsharing as false.
But in my VS 2013, WIN 7 machine, I have a console app hositing many services and I am able to run it from VS without any issues. My servichost is able to host more than 10 services with the same port. What am I missing to understand ? Any ideas ?
I use this endpoint followed by servicename for all my services:
<service name="Lookup" behaviorConfiguration="">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="net.tcp://localhost:8000/"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>
<endpoint
name="IEntitiesLookup"
binding="netTcpBinding"
address="LookupService"
contract="ILookup" />
</service>
I managed to clear my understanding on port sharing to an extent. But would be happy for more thoughts on this.
I managed to find the reason behind the above scenario. Within a process, I am able to host several endpoints which shares the same port. This does not need port sharing to be enabled. But if I have another process which tries to host some services with same port numbers, then an exception for 'ports already in use' happens. In this case, we then need to enable port sharing in the binding of all the endpoints in both the service host processes and start the PortSharing service.
I believe this boils down to the understanding that in the transport layer, the port numbers are tied to the process.

No protocol binding matches the given address' error

I am using Visual Studio 2008. I created a WCF application and when I ran the service for the first time from VS IDE (not hosted on IIS), the service opened in the web browser with the address localhost:1927/. Every time I run this service from VS IDE, it runs in the same port, i.e 1927
I wanted to change the port number (for some reason), so I gave specific address localhost:1928 in the web.config file. When I run the web service in IDE after this change, I keep getting the following error.
No protocol binding matches the given address 'localhost:1928/'. Protocol bindings are configured at the Site level in IIS or WAS configuration.
Following is the <service> section from the web.config file.
<service name="EMS.ServiceImplementation.EmployeeService"
behaviorConfiguration="EM.EmployeeServiceBehavior" >
<endpoint name="httpEndPoint"
address="http://localhost:1928/"
binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration=""
contract="EMS.ServiceContracts.IEmployeeService" />
<endpoint name="MEXEndPoint"
address="mex"
binding="mexHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration=""
contract="IMetadataExchange" />
</service>
My specific questions are:
How does VS IDE run the service always on the same port which it picked in the first run? Where is this information stored? (I looked through all files in the solution but I couldn't find port 1927 mentioned anywhere).
How can I make the service run on a different port?
(Please note that, I have seen similar threads in Stackoverflow, but they relate to service hosted in IIS)`
Just leave the address attribute empty and it is solved.
You can control this in the Solution Explorer under the Project Properties. There's a tab called Web where you can tell Visual Studio whether to use the default auto-assigned port, or a specific fixed port of your choosing:
Any non-standard settings will be stored into your YourProject.csproj file.

What to use as WCF net.tcp host baseAddress on different servers?

In my App.config, i have this base address specified ("jerrycan" is the name of my computer):
<service behaviorConfiguration="helloWorldServiceBehavior" name="OpdService.OpdService">
<endpoint address="/service" binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="NewBinding0"
name="MainEndPoint" contract="OpdService.IOpdService">
<identity>
<dns value="jerrycan" />
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint kind="udpDiscoveryEndpoint" />
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="net.tcp://jerrycan:8000" />
<add baseAddress="http://jerrycan/service" />
</baseAddresses>
<timeouts openTimeout="00:00:15" />
</host>
</service>
Everything works fine until I run service on other computer — clients can find service through UDP discovery, but aren't able to connect, as service continues to send old address. When I change "jerrycan" to "localhost", only local clients are able to connect to service (but on any computer). Any clients on other computers try to connect to "localhost" with no success.
So what should I use as host address if I want to be able to run service on different computers without recompile? Should I store address somewhere in config file for every computer, or should I change address in runtime? I think, I'm missing something simple and fundamental here.
Or maybe I should use localhost (as in many wcf samples) and it's my client connection code who brings the problems:
EndpointAddress endpointAddress = findResponse.Endpoints[0].Address;
OpdChannelFactory = new DuplexChannelFactory<OpdServiceReference.IOpdService>(CallbackHandler,
new NetTcpBinding("MainEndPoint"), endpointAddress);
Again, when I use "localhost" as base address, "localhost" comes as endpoint address in findResponse.
Edit:
It seems like I found solution here: http://btw-blog.blogspot.com/2011/02/dynamic-base-address-for-wcf-service.html
The point is to replace host name in base address with * symbol (wildcard). It will be changed with actual host name in run time.
Haven't tested everything yet, but looks like it actually works.
It seems like I found solution here: http://btw-blog.blogspot.com/2011/02/dynamic-base-address-for-wcf-service.html
The point is to replace host name in base address with "*" symbol (wildcard). It will be changed with actual host name in run time.
Tested it and it worked great.
Right now your service endpoint address is:
net.tcp://jerrycan:8000/service
When you create clients on the computer which is hosting the service (jerrycan-pc) of course the local clients will be able to access the service by referencing
net.tcp://localhost:8000/service
and obviously other clients (on other computers on your network) can not connect to the service if they try to contact localhost, because the endpoint: net.tcp://localhost:8000/service, is calling the local computer which in this case is not hosting the service (only for jerrycan-pc). If jerrycan-pc is hosting the service, clients on jerrycan-pc can call the service by referencing localhost, but clients on say mike-pc must either try to call jerrycan-pc or jerrycan-pc's IP. If you change the endpoint in your service configuration to your service hosts IP or even computer name, and reference the service on other computers using the IP of the service host/computer name then they will be able to access it. For example if jerrycan-pc is hosting the service and it has an IP of 192.168.1.5, your clients can consume the service by referencing this endpoint:
net.tcp://192.168.1.5:8000/service
So in your service config change localhost to the IP address or PC name and try to contact that address on your clients instead of contacting localhost.

WCF service running on localhost:4040

I hope this is a quick question. I have a WCF service running on IIS port 4040. I have added the following headers to this service
4040 (non load balanced domain)
4040 localhost
So locally I can reference this service as http://localhost:4040/service.svc and also by the fully qualified domain name. This is no problem for all the services on this machine, I can reference everything by localhost:4040
The issue comes when I try to access it from another server (as we have other apps that need to consume the service)
I get a 404 error, and was wondering whether the service is defaulting to being exposed on localhost loopback (127.0.0.1) therefore cannot be accessed.
The endpoint is defined as such:
<service behaviorConfiguration="ClaimChaseBehavior"
name="Modules.EClaims.ClaimChase">
<endpoint address=""
binding="basicHttpBinding"
contract="Domain.EClaims.DataInterfaces.IClaimChase" />
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding"
contract="IMetadataExchange" />
</service>
Notice I don't define an address. The reason for this is to allow us to have a common config file (we are trying to get around defining machine domains/addresses and thus multiple configs)
Is there a way to make the WCF default to the machine IP instead of the loopback connector without defining the actual domain name
Hope this makes sense
Regards
Richard
When you're hosting your service in IIS, the address of the service is defined and controlled by the location of your *.svc file - you cannot override that by defining base addresses or explicit address on your service endpoints.
The service address will always be:
http://machinename/VirtualDirectory/YourService.svc
Marc
Check your web config. Have you spesified that the address of the service is localhost?
EDIT:
On second thoughts, it looks like a firewall problem, is port 4040 blocked by a local firewall?

The request for security token could not be satisfied because authentication failed

This is a bit different than other questions I've found on SO regarding this issue...
We're running 2 websites, one a WCF service and the other is a client to the service. Whenever we try to access the service we get the message "The request for security token could not be satisfied because authentication failed."
Both the websites are hosted on the same machine and under the same App Pool. Both websites are hosted on port 80 and have different host headers... example: client.website.com and service.website.com
We're using wsHttpBinding on the service side:
<endpoint address="http://service.website.com/MessagingService.svc/wshttp"
binding="wsHttpBinding"
contract="WebServices.IMessagingService"
bindingNamespace="CNI/CNIMessenger"
bindingConfiguration="wsHttpBindingConfig"
name="wsHttpBinding">
</endpoint>
When we try to run the service we get the above mentioned error. After hours of debugging I was able to find that if I use a service configuration address without any url only wshttp and point my client to the IP Address/Port everything works fine. for example:
<endpoint address="wshttp"
... And client address points to: http://127.0.0.1:8888/MessagingService.svc/wshttp
When I change the address and website to use service.website.com and keep the port 8888 I continue to get the same error.
Does anyone have any insight on this? MANY Thanks!
Try adding the following to your configuration:
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://service.website.com"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>
keep the address as wshttp