Created attachment 469 [details]
jacorb debug logfile

We try to connect to a not responding corba service using JacORB 3.6.1. We set the properties jacorb.retries and jacorb.connection.client.pending_reply_timeout and hoped to get a failure after the number of specified retries.
Instead it seems that JacORB is ending in an endless loop, trying to connect to the service
 
(1) connect to nameservice (success)
(2) connect to corba service (timeout failure); retry
(3) goto (1) - we did not expect this
 
We use JacORB together with Apache CXF to establish the connection. The address we use there (in the JaxWsProxyFactoryBean) is something like "corbaname::<NameService>:<NameServicePort>#<ServiceName>". Meanwhile we used the "Ultra Corba Simulator" to connect to the service and the behaviour is as expected (exception after unsuccessful retries). 

When we use the SUN ORB we get an Exception as expected (even when using Apache CXF)

Jun 25, 2015 9:07:12 PM com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl <init>
WARNUNG: "IOP00410201: (COMM_FAILURE) Connection failure: socketType: IIOP_CLEAR_TEXT; hostname: <server>; port: <port>"
org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE:   vmcid: SUN  minor code: 201  completed: No
       at com.sun.corba.se.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.connectFailure(ORBUtilSystemException.java:2200)
       at com.sun.corba.se.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.connectFailure(ORBUtilSystemException.java:2221)
       at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.<init>(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:223)

Hint: In a private email conversation (after I reported the bug to the mailing list - http://lists.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/pipermail/jacorb-developer/2015-June/000711.html) Nick Cross narrowed the problem to:

> Thanks for the log. As Phil and I suspected it is entering the
> getParsedIOR().useCorbaName() and looping continuously in there.
> 
> Phil is also taking a look at a related case so we will try to come up
> with a solution.