[Koha] Creating a Z39.50 Target - No connection

Wed Apr 8 13:29:37 NZST 2015

Hi all,

Update:

Restarted zebra with
sudo koha-zebra-restart <instancename>
to no effect. Still unable to connect to 210

Also tried to telnet using sudo telnet localhost:210, to which I get the following error

telnet: could not resolve localhost:210/telnet: Name or service not known

Three things of note:

1. I noticed that when checking the iptables, nothing is listed as listening in on port 210, but port 80 and 8080 are listed (OPAC and Staff Client, respectively). How would I open port 210 with iptables? I'm not sure what I should do.

2. Here is my koha-conf.xml file (edited out sensitive information): https://www.dropbox.com/s/qk5scpwuv6pibvy/koha-conf.xml?dl=0 . Does anyone see anything out of place?
By the way, my instance name is <library>, and I would like to use Port 210 for Z39.50.

3. Log Files:

a) On zebra-error.log:

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/koha/sites/library/__KOHA_CONF_DIR__/zebradb/explain-biblios.xml"
21:04:47-07/04 [fatal] Failed to bind to tcp:@:210 [Permission denied]

b) On zebra-output.log:

20:53:41-24/03 zebrasrv(103) [warn] dfa_parse fail=1
20:53:41-24/03 zebrasrv(103) [warn] dict_lookup_grep fail -1

Not sure if #3 is a clue to what's happening.

Any thoughts?

Best to all and thanks,

Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER
the royal conservatory
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
273 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M5S 1W2
416.408.2824 x338
www.rcmusic.ca

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From: Koha [koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] on behalf of Craig Butosi [craig.butosi at rcmusic.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 2:21 PM
To: Hugo Agud
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Creating a Z39.50 Target - No connection

Hi all,

Hugo, thank you for the advice ☺ To a novice, no advice is silly!

I will look into restarting zebra and try to telnet to 210 later this evening.

Thanks very much!

Best,

Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER
the royal conservatory
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
273 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M5S 1W2
416.408.2824 x338
www.rcmusic.ca<http://www.rcmusic.ca/>

From: Hugo Agud [mailto:hagud at orex.es]
Sent: April-07-15 1:51 PM
To: Craig Butosi
Cc: koha-user
Subject: Re: [Koha] Creating a Z39.50 Target - No connection

Hi
this is a very silly advice :(, but have you restarted Zebra? changes in koha-conf.xml are not effective until you restart the server, if you have started have you tried telnet localhost 210?

Hugo

2015-04-07 19:46 GMT+02:00 Craig Butosi <craig.butosi at rcmusic.ca<mailto:craig.butosi at rcmusic.ca>>:
Hi Everyone,

I was interested in making my catalogue searchable by turning its <biblios> database into a z39.50 target. I've followed the instructions in my koha-conf.xml file (etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml), un-commenting the necessary areas. However, going through the Troubleshooting page on the Koha Wiki: http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_Koha_as_a_Z39.50_server has led to a dead-end.

I have my port set to 210 (this is different from the 9999 default for biblios), yet I cannot connect to yaz-client after running

yaz-client -c /etc/koha/zebradb/ccl.properties localhost:210/biblios

It shows the following error:

Connecting...error = System (lower-layer) error: Connection refused

Now, I'm wondering if this is a simple case of not opening port 210 on my firewall. I've run the following command, attempting to do this:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 210 -j ACCEPT

Yet, this port isn't listed on my server connections (sudo netstat -pn --udp -listen)

Can anyone advise, please? (Happy to send the necessary areas of my koha-conf.xml file off-list for diagnosis).

Many thanks in advance!

Best to all,

Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
LIBRARY SERVICES MANAGER
the royal conservatory
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
273 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M5S 1W2
416.408.2824 x338
www.rcmusic.ca<http://www.rcmusic.ca><http://www.rcmusic.ca/>

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