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

[Carl-Adam Brengesjo]

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

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #7:

Ah, now I understand what you're trying to do.

It's not a bug in pnet, but a configuration error by you.

"The domain name queries carried out by gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr()
use a combination of any or all of the name server named(8), a broken out
line from /etc/hosts, and the Network Information Service (NIS or YP),
depending upon the contents of the order line in /etc/host.conf." -
gethostbyname(3), man page.

You see, even if the hostname is set to a certain value, you either need a
name server to resolve the name to an address, or if you have defined the
name in /etc/hosts to be able to actually resolve the name. It can't
magically be resolved unless something specifies the address for the name.

Example:
address@hidden:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain   localhost
address@hidden:~$ ping bar
ping: unkown host bar
address@hidden:/home/ptah# echo 192.168.0.26 localhost.localdomain bar >>
/etc/hosts
address@hidden:~$ ping bar
PING localhost.localdomain (192.168.0.26) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (192.168.0.26): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.443 ms


Don't think I can be clearer than that...
This bug is bogus, closed Sunday, 6 March.

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