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What is the errno returned: The variable h_errno can have the following values: HOST_NOT_FOUND The specified host is unknown. NO_ADDRESS or NO_DATA The requested name is valid but does not have an IP address. NO_RECOVERY A non-recoverable name server error occurred. TRY_AGAIN A temporary error occurred on an authoritative name server. Try again later. Also, do you use sethostent() and endhostent(); On 18 Jun 2002 at 13:03, Frank Ramsay wrote: > > > I'm down at a client site doing some troubleshooting and I've come across a > very strange gethostbyname error. It's returning NULL on a hostname in the > /etc/hosts file. What happens is when the remote server goes down the > client program tries to re-connect every few hundred times though it's main > loop. The idea being it will re-connect when server comes back up. When it > first comes up it works, but after an hour or two gethostbyname starts to > fail. Has anyone seen anything like this before? > redhat 7.2 > glibc-2.2.4-19 > > > -fjr > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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