One way to get this working in Glassfish v2 is to use a Glasfish appclient instead of a standalone client. To secure the name-service port, you could modify <domain-dir>/config/sun-acc.xml to include the property:
<property name="ssl" value="required"/>
along with the other properties. You could also change the port of the targer server from 3700 to 3820. You would then be able to contact the name service securely.
This seems to be an issue with the same procedure in v3 which we are trying to fix.
HTH
Nithya
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