[Pnet-developers] [bugs #12168] Cannot retreive the local hostname

[Carl-Adam Brengesjo]

Update of bugs #12168 (project dotgnu-pnet):

                 Summary:             Bug in pnet => Cannot retreive the
local hostname

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Follow-up Comment #3:

The return value from Dns.GetHostName() shouldn't be NULL, a SocketException
should be thrown. However, that's not the reason why it fails.

Dns.GetHostName() uses an internal call to fetch the hostname,  and these C
functions return null in two cases:
1) gethostname isn't defined on your system.
2) gethostname failed. See the man page gethostname(3).

I assume your system has a working glibc with gethostname defined... so is
there an error when calling gethostname?

What does "uname -n" tells you?

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