Re: sendmail gethostbyaddr fails

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:52:32PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
...
> Try this instead:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use Socket;
> print scalar gethostbyaddr(inet_aton($ARGV[0]), AF_INET) || "(?)", "\n";

works as expected, gethostbyname works too. (I tried it in python, there I
know what is done, quite unlike with the above line:) *

So how come that ssh isn't sattisfied with it?  The testing version
reads /etc/hosts but still starts a resolve operation, that goes off
to query a dns server, and then falls back to /etc/hosts.

*) Okee, I looked in the docs for scalar and for gethostbyname, guessed
   what inet_aton would do, nah looked it up too.  So now I know.

-- 
groetjes, carel