and@ux.rfhsm.lon.ac.uk (Andy Holyer) (09/22/90)
Guys, I run a Gould (Sorry Encore :-( ) PowerNode which is isolated from other tcp/ip hosts (JANET uses X25, even our local network uses it). Recently I've been trying to get some software to go which falls over apparently due to a call to gethostbyname() returning NULL. Fair enough, so I wrote a little noddy program to do a gethostbyname() and tell me what h_errno returned, so I've got an idea what's wrong. Except h_errno is set to 0. That's not one of the legal error values. gethostent() works fine, returns a perfectly respectable hostent* for the one legal line in /etc/hosts, but the call to gethostbyname() still folds. Any ideas? Which FM should I have R'ed? Oh, yes I'm running UTX-32 V2.1. ------------------------- Andy Holyer and@uk.ac.lon.rfhsm.ux Dept. of Medical Informatics and Computing, ...!ukc!r-free!and Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Rowland Hill St. London NW3 (+44) 1 794 8673 Disclaimer: The above views were written by automatic writing by Elvis from his hacienda on Mars....