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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: bin/2812: sysinstall wont resolve addresses over PPP
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2812; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: andrew@ugh.net.au (Andrew)
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2812: sysinstall wont resolve addresses over PPP
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 23:48:37 +0100

 As Andrew wrote:
 
 >  Just letting you know I get the same thing with 2.2-970302-GAMMA.
 >  Presumably other people aren't experiencing the same thing as I haven't
 >  seen any mention on the mailing lists but it still appears to be missong
 >  the entered IP address and trying to resolve the null string.
 
 Hmm, i've just tried it with yesterday's sysinstall (in multi-user
 mode, but that shouldn't matter).  Here's the log extract:
 
 DEBUG: Setting variable ftp to other
 DEBUG: variable ftp was other, now ftp://
 DEBUG: variable ftp was ftp://, now ftp://127.0.0.1/usr/release/R/ftp
 DEBUG: hostname = `127.0.0.1'
 DEBUG: dir = `usr/release/R/ftp'
 DEBUG: port # = `21'
 DEBUG: Found DNS entry for 127.0.0.1 successfully.
 DEBUG: Setting variable ftpHost to 127.0.0.1
 DEBUG: Setting variable ftpDirectory to usr/release/R/ftp
 DEBUG: Setting variable ftpPort to 21
 
 So it does indeed try to resolve the IP address, but only if a
 nameserver is configured at all:
 
     if (variable_get(VAR_NAMESERVER)) {
 	if ((gethostbyname(hostname) == NULL) && (inet_addr(hostname) == INADDR_NONE)) {
 	...
 
 ...but it works for me afterwards.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)