This *is* my new ISP. I understand their stance, they work are working from a
standard security perspective. "Don't open it unless you need to". This is an
admirable stance, although misapplied in this case. You always have to strike a
balance between security and funcionality and I feel that they have erred more on the
side of security than is necessary and so removed a fundamental part of functionality.
So I need to work around the problem.
Jenda has kindly provided me a way to get around it, and I have now encountered my
next problem.
getprotobyname() returns a list: { $name, $alias, $number }
If I do
@proto = getprotobyname();
print @proto;
I get "tcpTCP6".
My getprotobyname() has a
return { "tcp", "TCP", "6" } ;
But if I do:
@proto = getprotobyname();
print @proto;
I get HASH<whatever>.
I am wondering how to return list correctly.
Thanks,
Paul.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 27 February 2002 16:45
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: No access to /etc/protocols
>
>
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to perl.beginners as well.
>
> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Paul> Hello everyone.
>
> Paul> My ISP doesn't have /etc/protocols world readable, and so IO::Socket
> Paul> doesn't work, as getprotobyname and getprotobynumber fail.
>
> Time to get a new ISP, unless you can clue them in that this file is
> necessary. ISPs are a dime a dozen these days, so doing stoopid
> tricks like this is just a way of saying "we don't want any clueful
> users".
>
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