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Date:      Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:36:38 -0600
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: resolver problem with shared linked programs
Message-ID:  <20010228093638.A27124@lerami.lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A9CFCF0.C24ADB1@camtech.net.au>; from thyerm@camtech.net.au on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:58:16PM %2B1030
References:  <200102281125.f1SBPiM51551@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <3A9CFCF0.C24ADB1@camtech.net.au>

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* Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> [010228 07:26]:
> John Hay wrote:
> > 
> > I noticed that sendmail started to complain of a failed reverse lookup
> > when starting:
> > 
> > Feb 28 11:40:43 beast sendmail[276]: gethostbyaddr(3ffe:2900:fffa:2:2a0:c9ff:fe8d:7c5f) failed: 2
> > 
> > At first I thought something is wrong with my ipv6 dns setup, but it turned
> > out that if a program is linked shared the first getipnodebyaddr() it does
> > will succeed, but the rest fail. For a staticly linked program all of
> > them will succeed:
> 
> So it's in -CURRENT too.  -STABLE users have been complaining of a
> similar problem since about the 20th/21st of Feb.
> 
> I was damned lucky that I skimmed:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable%40freebsd.org/
> before I built a -STABLE system today.
> 
> I'm cross posting to stable so others can try your program.
Bingo.  It breaks on -STABLE too.  

LER
$ uname -a
FreeBSD lerbsd.lerctr.org 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #108: Tue Feb
27 22:28:4
0 CST 2001     ler@lerbsd.lerctr.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/LERBSD  i386
$ cc -O -static -o x x.c
$ ./x
And the answer is: beast.icomtek.csir.co.za
And the answer is: beast.icomtek.csir.co.za
$ cc -O -o x x.c
$ time ./x
And the answer is: beast.icomtek.csir.co.za
Oops: 2.
getipnodebyaddr: Host name lookup failure
   81.12s real     0.00s user     0.00s system
$
> 
> And I wont install my -CURRENT buildworld.
> 
> > 
> > #include <sys/types.h>
> > #include <sys/socket.h>
> > #include <netinet/in.h>
> > #include <arpa/inet.h>
> > #include <netdb.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > {
> >         struct hostent *he;
> >         int h_err;
> >         u_char ipnum[16];
> >         char *astr1;
> > 
> >         astr1 = "146.64.24.3";
> >         h_err = inet_pton(AF_INET, astr1, ipnum);
> >         if(h_err == 0) {
> >                 printf("conversion error with inet_pton()\n");
> >                 exit(1);
> >         }
> > 
> >         he = getipnodebyaddr(ipnum, 4, AF_INET, &h_err);
> >         if(he == NULL) {
> >                 printf("Oops: %d.\n", h_err);
> >                 herror("getipnodebyaddr");
> >         } else
> >                 printf("And the answer is: %s\n", he->h_name);
> > 
> >         he = getipnodebyaddr(ipnum, 4, AF_INET, &h_err);
> >         if(he == NULL) {
> >                 printf("Oops: %d.\n", h_err);
> >                 herror("getipnodebyaddr");
> >         } else
> >                 printf("And the answer is: %s\n", he->h_name);
> > 
> >         return 0;
> > }
> 
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