From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 8:58:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7EC537B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:58:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net (mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net [209.58.140.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3CB43F13 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:58:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leblanc@mirrorimage.net) Received: from leblanc.mirrorimage.net (leblanc.mirrorimage.net [209.192.210.146]) by mail-relay1.mirrorimage.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24175 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:34 -0500 Received: from leblanc.mirrorimage.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leblanc.mirrorimage.net (8.12.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h0NGwXtk067220 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from leblanc@leblanc.mirrorimage.net) Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by leblanc.mirrorimage.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h0NGwXGr067219 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:58:33 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: getaddrinfo problems with gkrellm Message-ID: <20030123165832.GA64474@keyslapper.org> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey folks. I have a wierd question here regarding getaddrinfo(). I recently installed gkrellm2 from the ports, and found that it was misbehaving with remote email checks. It had no problems when being run on the local machine running the mail server, but from work, it seemed to just do nothing. Well, naturally I went to the source. Well, one of the authors, anyway. Bill Wilson was very helpful. After I helped him narrow down the problem, he sent me the following links: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-glibc/2002-04/msg00210.html http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200007/msg00380.html I know they seem to be more related to Linux, but they also seem to apply here. He provided a patch that basically undefined the HAVE_GETADDRINFO precompiler macro. This fixed the problem. The reason I'm posting it here, is it appears this may be some obscure problem in glibc, and I'm wondering if anyone else has any insight in this problem. I looked at GETADDRINFO(3) and it seems to imply that the gkrellm2 behavior is correct, but it still doesn't work. Anyone have any insight to this? Is it really a problem with glib, or is this something that should just be ignored for now? Sorry if this is the wrong venue for this question, If it belongs elsewhere, please let me know. Thanks Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message