Bug 52989

Hello,
Try adding:
preferIPv4Stack=true
To system.properties file in bin folder on jmeter jvms

Please leave a post in this issue if this works for you

Regards
Philippe

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hello,
> Try adding:
> preferIPv4Stack=true
> To system.properties file in bin folder on jmeter jvms
> 
> Please leave a post in this issue if this works for you
> 
> Regards
> Philippe

After added the parameter[preferIPv4Stack=true
] into JMeter client system.properties. It could control IPv4 only JMeter Server but it couldn't control IPv6 only JMeter server.

2012/03/27 07:22:02 INFO  - jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart: Initialising remote engine: w2k8-win08-2 
2012/03/27 07:22:05 ERROR - jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart: Failed to initialise remote engine java.rmi.UnknownHostException: Unknown host: w2k8-win08-2; nested exception is: 
	java.net.UnknownHostException: w2k8-win08-2
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:598)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:198)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:184)
	at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:322)
	at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.lookup(Unknown Source)
	at java.rmi.Naming.lookup(Naming.java:84)
	at org.apache.jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine.getEngine(ClientJMeterEngine.java:56)
	at org.apache.jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine.<init>(ClientJMeterEngine.java:69)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart.doRemoteInit(RemoteStart.java:176)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart.doAction(RemoteStart.java:79)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.ActionRouter.performAction(ActionRouter.java:80)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.ActionRouter.access$000(ActionRouter.java:41)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.ActionRouter$1.run(ActionRouter.java:62)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:646)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:84)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:607)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:605)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:616)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: w2k8-win08-2
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:375)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:189)
	at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIDirectSocketFactory.java:22)
	at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIMasterSocketFactory.java:128)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:595)
	... 26 more

2012/03/27 07:22:14 INFO  - jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart: Initialising remote engine: vm3113 
2012/03/27 07:22:15 INFO  - jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: running clientengine run method 
2012/03/27 07:22:15 INFO  - jmeter.samplers.StandardSampleSender: Using StandardSampleSender for this test run 
2012/03/27 07:22:15 INFO  - jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: sent test to vm3113 basedir='.' 
2012/03/27 07:22:15 INFO  - jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: sent run command to vm3113 
2012/03/27 07:22:15 INFO  - jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar: setRunning(true,vm3113) 
2012/03/27 07:22:15 INFO  - jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar: setRunning(false,vm3113)

Put this on both sides.
Regards
Philippe

(In reply to comment #4)
> Put this on both sides.
> Regards
> Philippe

I have tried both too.
when using preferIPv4Stack=true, I got following result.

JMeter client(OS enabled IPv4 & IPv6) could control JMeter server (OS only enabled IPv4)
For JMeter server (OS only enabled IPv6), it got following ERROR when start JMeter server.

2012/03/27 08:19:36 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: PWD       =D:\apache-jmeter-2.6\bin 
2012/03/27 08:19:36 INFO  - jmeter.JMeter: IP: 127.0.0.1 Name: w2k8-win08-2 FullName: w2k8-win08-2 
2012/03/27 08:19:36 INFO  - jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl: Starting backing engine on 1099 
2012/03/27 08:19:36 INFO  - jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl: IP address=127.0.0.1 
2012/03/27 08:19:36 ERROR - jmeter.JMeter: Giving up, as server failed with: java.rmi.RemoteException: Cannot start. w2k8-win08-2 is a loopback address.
	at org.apache.jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.init(RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.java:99)
	at org.apache.jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.startServer(RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.java:78)
	at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.start(JMeter.java:350)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver.main(NewDriver.java:216)

2012/03/27 08:19:36 FATAL - jmeter.JMeter: An error occurred:  java.rmi.RemoteException: Cannot start. w2k8-win08-2 is a loopback address.
	at org.apache.jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.init(RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.java:99)
	at org.apache.jmeter.engine.RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.startServer(RemoteJMeterEngineImpl.java:78)
	at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.start(JMeter.java:350)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver.main(NewDriver.java:216)

Issue is due to the fact that address is a Loopback one.
Try defining java.rmi.server.hostname in system.properties to a host that is not a Loopback.

(In reply to comment #6)
> Issue is due to the fact that address is a Loopback one.
> Try defining java.rmi.server.hostname in system.properties to a host that is
> not a Loopback.

After defined java.rmi.server.hostname on IPv6 only server, The JMeter server could be started.
Unfortunately, JMeter client(enabled IPv6 & IPv4) couldn't control it and got following error.

2012/03/27 09:57:26 INFO  - jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart: Initialising remote engine: w2k8-win08-2 
2012/03/27 09:57:28 ERROR - jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart: Failed to initialise remote engine java.rmi.UnknownHostException: Unknown host: w2k8-win08-2; nested exception is: 
	java.net.UnknownHostException: w2k8-win08-2
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:598)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:198)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:184)
	at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:322)
	at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.lookup(Unknown Source)
	at java.rmi.Naming.lookup(Naming.java:84)
	at org.apache.jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine.getEngine(ClientJMeterEngine.java:56)
	at org.apache.jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine.<init>(ClientJMeterEngine.java:69)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart.doRemoteInit(RemoteStart.java:176)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart.doAction(RemoteStart.java:79)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.ActionRouter.performAction(ActionRouter.java:80)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.ActionRouter.access$000(ActionRouter.java:41)
	at org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.ActionRouter$1.run(ActionRouter.java:62)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:646)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:84)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:607)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:605)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:616)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: w2k8-win08-2
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:375)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:189)
	at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIDirectSocketFactory.java:22)
	at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(RMIMasterSocketFactory.java:128)
	at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:595)
	... 26 more

According to above result, can we get following conclusion?

JMeter client(OS enabled IPv4 & IPv6) couldn't control IPv4 JMeter server (OS only
enabled IPv4) and IPv6 JMeter server (OS only enabled IPv6) at same time.

If so, could JMeter support it later?

No we can't.
I suggest you switch to Mailing list.
What is W2k8-win08-2 ? Client or server ?
CAN you detail which configuration you setup and what thé other jvm host name ?

Regards
Philippe

(In reply to comment #9)
> No we can't.
I meant we can't conclude That is doesn't work
> I suggest you switch to Mailing list.
> What is W2k8-win08-2 ? Client or server ?
> CAN you detail which configuration you setup and what thé other jvm host name ?
> 
> Regards
> Philippe

(In reply to comment #9)
> No we can't.
> I suggest you switch to Mailing list.
> What is W2k8-win08-2 ? Client or server ?
> CAN you detail which configuration you setup and what thé other jvm host name ?
> 
> Regards
> Philippe

W2k8-win08-2 is another JMeter server that is only enabled IPv6 in OS network.
JMeter Server[W2k8-win08-2]:
OS: Windows 2008
Network: IPv6
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:db8:cafe:67:457f:2323:dcc7:b4e7
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:db8:cafe:67:a111:a111:a111:ab0
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::457f:2323:dcc7:b4e7%11
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::222:55ff:fe18:980%11

In This case, we have following three machines.
JMeter client [w2k8-1-1]: Windows2008 enabled IPv4 & IPv6
JMeter Server [vm3113]: Windows 2003 only enabled IPv4
JMeter Server[W2k8-win08-2]: Windows 2008 only enabled IPv6

If I use all default configration in JMeter 2.6, I got following result:
JMeter client [w2k8-1-1] could control JMeter Server[W2k8-win08-2] and it couldn't control JMeter Server [vm3113].
And I found ERROR from vm3113 log.[vm3113 is not have IPv6 adapter. Thus, it don't know the JMeter client IPv6 address.]
testStarted(host) java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host:
2001:db8:cafe:67:a111:a111:a111:1f34;

If I set preferIPv4Stack=true on three JMeter machines and set java.rmi.server.hostname=W2k8-win08-2 on W2k8-win08-2, I got following result:
JMeter client and JMeter server could be started.
JMeter client [w2k8-1-1] could control JMeter Server[vm3113] and it couldn't control JMeter Server [W2k8-win08-2].
And I found ERROR from JMeter client [w2k8-1-1] log.[JMeter client use IPv4 at this time and w2k8-win08-2 machine don't have IPv4 hostname.]
2012/03/27 09:57:28 ERROR - jmeter.gui.action.RemoteStart: Failed to initialise
remote engine java.rmi.UnknownHostException: Unknown host: w2k8-win08-2;

Thanks for précisions.
So i think issue comes from the 3 combinations. So preferipv4 does not work as there is à machine with only ipv6.
So title of issue is wrong .
What should be done is to make thé client tell thé server which ip to use giving either an ipv4 or ipv6.
I suggest still you ask à question on Mailing list maybe some body has done this and rename issue to clarify it and finallly give what's in remote_hosts property,

Thanks

(In reply to comment #12)
> Thanks for précisions.
> So i think issue comes from the 3 combinations. So preferipv4 does not work as
> there is à machine with only ipv6.
> So title of issue is wrong .
> What should be done is to make thé client tell thé server which ip to use
> giving either an ipv4 or ipv6.
> I suggest still you ask à question on Mailing list maybe some body has done
> this and rename issue to clarify it and finallly give what's in remote_hosts
> property,
> 
> Thanks

Thank you for your advice! I have update title of the bug. Let me ask the question on mailing list later.
I used hostname in remote hosts list.
remote_hosts=vm3113,w2k8-win08-2

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/2797