I have a TCP listener in a windows service that listens for any incoming TCP requests on a specific port and processes the message. It works fine when it is accessed directly. But once this is running behind a load balancer (in intranet), then it is not accepting any requests. I get errors like "unable to connect to remote server" OR "operation timed out". After a while the service terminates with "out of memory" exception. Please let me know what could be the reason for this. Pasting the code below. I even tried async mode as well (to avoid explicit thread launching). but that didn't help.
public class SampleListener: IDisposable
{
public delegate void JobRecieved(HttpMessage msg);
public event JobRecieved OnJobRecieved;
#region Property
private TcpListener _tcpListener;
private Thread _listenerThread;
public int Port { get; private set; }
public string Url
{
get
{
return new UriBuilder { Scheme = "http", Port = Port, Host = Dns.GetHostName() }.ToString();
}
}
#endregion
public SampleListener(int port)
{
Port = port;
}
~SampleListener()
{
DisposeImpl(false);
}
public void Start()
{
_tcpListener = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, Port);
_tcpListener.Start();
_listenerThread = new Thread(ListenCallback);
_listenerThread.Start();
}
public void ListenCallback()
{
try
{
while (true)
{
using (TcpClient client = _tcpListener.AcceptTcpClient())
using (var clientStream = client.GetStream())
{
var msg = new HttpMessage();
msg.Receive(clientStream);
SendOKResponse(client, "");
OnJobRecieved(msg);
client.Close();
}
}
}
catch (System.Net.Sockets.SocketException e)
{
// Expected, TcpClient.Stop called
}
catch (System.Threading.ThreadAbortException)
{
// Expected, thread going away
}
catch (System.IO.IOException)
{
// Expected, shutdown while reading
}
}
private void SendOKResponse(TcpClient tcpClient, String responseBody)
{
var response = new HttpMessage
{
Status = "200",
Reason = "OK",
Version = "HTTP/1.1"
};
response.Send(tcpClient.GetStream(), responseBody);
}
public void Shutdown()
{
lock (this)
{
if (_listenerThread != null)
{
_listenerThread.Abort();
_listenerThread = null;
}
if (_tcpListener != null)
{
_tcpListener.Stop();
_tcpListener.Server.Close();
_tcpListener = null;
}
}
}
#region IDisposable Members
private void DisposeImpl(Boolean bDisposing)
{
lock (this)
{
Shutdown();
}
}
public void Dispose()
{
GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
DisposeImpl(true);
}
#endregion
}
