From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Franz Sirl To: Martin Costabel , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: [BUG] in glibc-2.1.1-6b: gethostbyname broken Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 00:20:33 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Tom Rini References: <37342C2B.E435F291@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99051000253500.04861@ns1102.munich.netsurf.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Am Sat, 08 May 1999 schrieb Martin Costabel: >> >Under glibc-2.1.1-6b, I cannot do an NFS-mount using the numeric IP >address of the server. Without even consulting the net, mount says: > mount: can't get address for xx.xx.xx.xx > >Under glibc-2.1.1-5b, it works correctly. > >I tracked this down to gethostbyname, which doesn't work correctly when >fed a numeric IP address. > >If I run the the attached program as > tstgethbn 193.252.19.78 >I get a correct result when glibc-2.1.1-5b.ppc.rpm is installed, and an >error when glibc-2.1.1-6b.ppc.rpm is installed. Both rpms are from >mirror.linuxppc.org. > >Could someone who knows what changed between 5b and 6b please look into >this? Fixed in glibc-2.1.1-6c. This was a general bug in glibc-2.1.1pre2, I've updated to a current glibc CVS snapshot which fixes it. Thanks for your report. Franz. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]