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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news-server.ncren.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!not-for-mail From: camattin@unity.ncsu.edu (Chris A. Mattingly) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems after upgrading to 2.2-961014-SNAP Date: 15 Oct 1996 14:53:57 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5408i5$a4o@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: heli-fishing.eos.ncsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Has anyone else had luck getting zephyrs to function after upgrading? Mine worked flawlessly under the previous snap, and now, none of the binaries can figure out host information. shell% zstat Unknown host: xxx-xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I figured maybe something significant changed somewhere, so I recompiled from scratch, and the same error is still relevant. It doesn't matter that nothing else has problems figuring out the local hostname, and other hosts. After very light delving into the zephyr code, I saw that they are having problems because inet_addr() is returning -1. According to the docs for inet_addr(), it returns -1 when the arg passed to inet_addr() is malformed. What's malformed about a standard hostname? I put some debugging in to confirm that the host arg passed to that function was valid, and it looks fine and dandy to me. So, what could have changed between the two SNAPs to cause this freakish behavior? Looks like I might just have to downgrade to the previous snap. Thanks for any help, -Chris -- Chris Mattingly | My views are not necessarily those of my employers camattin@ncsu.edu | NCSU/ITECS [ECO] | "Good programmers write good code; great Systems Programmer | programmers 'borrow' good code." -- Mike Gancarz