RE: Problem with gethostbyaddr while trying to run commercial app
It seems to have worked, thanx! Next step is to try the public IP address as
this
is part of a distributed system.
Anyone have an idea of the cause of this strange behaviour?
-----Original Message-----
From: louie miranda [mailto:louie@chikka.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:49 AM
To: Johannes A. Schoeman, MCOM/; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem with gethostbyaddr while trying to run commercial
app
Im not practically sure, i encountered this problem a long time ago.
try changing your hostname to 127.0.0.1
and re-run your app.
ty,
louie at chikka dot com
----- Original Message -----
From: <alwyn@smart.com.ph>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:36 AM
Subject: Problem with gethostbyaddr while trying to run commercial app
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get a commercial application which was originally intended
> for Redhat 6.2 to work on Woody.
>
> It complines that gethostbyaddr() cannot find the local machine's
hostname.
> The box is set up correctly and from
> strace I can see that it looks in the right files and actually reads the
> data.
>
> I seem to remember that the problem is libc version related. Could anyone
> confirm or assist?
>
> Regards,
> Alwyn Schoeman
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