* Matthew Thyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010228 07:26]:
> John Hay wrote:
> >
> > I noticed that sendmail started to complain of a failed reverse lookup
> > when starting:
> >
> > Feb 28 11:40:43 beast sendmail[276]:
>gethostbyaddr(3ffe:2900:fffa:2:2a0:c9ff:fe8d:7c5f) failed: 2
> >
> > At first I thought something is wrong with my ipv6 dns setup, but it turned
> > out that if a program is linked shared the first getipnodebyaddr() it does
> > will succeed, but the rest fail. For a staticly linked program all of
> > them will succeed:
>
> So it's in -CURRENT too. -STABLE users have been complaining of a
> similar problem since about the 20th/21st of Feb.
>
> I was damned lucky that I skimmed:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable%40freebsd.org/
> before I built a -STABLE system today.
>
> I'm cross posting to stable so others can try your program.
Bingo. It breaks on -STABLE too.
LER
$ uname -a
FreeBSD lerbsd.lerctr.org 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #108: Tue Feb
27 22:28:4
0 CST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/LERBSD i386
$ cc -O -static -o x x.c
$ ./x
And the answer is: beast.icomtek.csir.co.za
And the answer is: beast.icomtek.csir.co.za
$ cc -O -o x x.c
$ time ./x
And the answer is: beast.icomtek.csir.co.za
Oops: 2.
getipnodebyaddr: Host name lookup failure
81.12s real 0.00s user 0.00s system
$
>
> And I wont install my -CURRENT buildworld.
>
> >
> > #include <sys/types.h>
> > #include <sys/socket.h>
> > #include <netinet/in.h>
> > #include <arpa/inet.h>
> > #include <netdb.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> >
> > int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> > struct hostent *he;
> > int h_err;
> > u_char ipnum[16];
> > char *astr1;
> >
> > astr1 = "146.64.24.3";
> > h_err = inet_pton(AF_INET, astr1, ipnum);
> > if(h_err == 0) {
> > printf("conversion error with inet_pton()\n");
> > exit(1);
> > }
> >
> > he = getipnodebyaddr(ipnum, 4, AF_INET, &h_err);
> > if(he == NULL) {
> > printf("Oops: %d.\n", h_err);
> > herror("getipnodebyaddr");
> > } else
> > printf("And the answer is: %s\n", he->h_name);
> >
> > he = getipnodebyaddr(ipnum, 4, AF_INET, &h_err);
> > if(he == NULL) {
> > printf("Oops: %d.\n", h_err);
> > herror("getipnodebyaddr");
> > } else
> > printf("And the answer is: %s\n", he->h_name);
> >
> > return 0;
> > }
>
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