From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 7 6:29:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4210137B796 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 06:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vivek@cs.rice.edu) Received: (from vivek@localhost) by cs.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA17333 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:29:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:29:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Vivek Sadananda Pai Message-Id: <200008071329.IAA17333@cs.rice.edu> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apparently FreeBSD-specific DNS failure Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have to say that I'm floored by the speed of all of your answers. I've never received answers so quickly. Thank you all very much. If I may make a suggestion - I don't know how much flexibility there is to change error codes for gethostbyname and getaddrinfo. I realize this may be governed by some common spec and is therefore undoable. However, if there is some flexibility in the matter, and if FreeBSD can determine that these records are improper, it would be nice to have an extra error code to handle this case. The error in getaddrinfo was EAI_FAIL and it was the "unknown" case when I called hstrerror after gethostbyname. Barring that, if there's any way to have the lookup work even in the case of improper setup, that might also have some merit. I realize it's a debatable proposition since it's better to have the records fixed by the owner. Still, it's one of those things where people may not ask for help, but will erroneously conclude that something is wrong with FreeBSD. I'll pass on the responses to the site's owner and see if it gets fixed. Thanks again, Vivek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message