I figured a few strange outputs while running make test
after a successful compilation of mod_perl-1.99-13
saying that
the server couldn't be started (syntax error at line 27 of httpd.conf -> Listen localhost:8xxx) (Linux on i386)
or
dubios output for most of the tests (Linux on PPC)
I figured that this problem is in relation to an entry in the /etc/hosts.
The entry for the localhost for IPV6 is causing this problem.
If it's commented out everything works fine.
the entry looks like this
# special IPv6 addresses ::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
and is the standard for all SuSE distros (SuSE Linux and SLES )!
At the moment I can live with this problem but I don't know
the reason behind it, maybe there will be a problem I haven't figured by now.
The strange thing is that with mod_perl-1.99_12 everything works fine !!!!
Yes, it's a known problem. Not mod_perl's but Apache-Test's one. A-T included in 1.99_13 for the first time works on the ipv6 systems. Though it seems to have problems with those weird setups that run no ipv6, but for some reason add ::1 to their localhost list.
We need to write a generic function to resolve localhost and make sure that we get an ip and not ::1 on the ipv4 systems. If we get ::1 Apache won't start. Help to accomplish that is very appreciated.
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