[erlang-bugs] : : : inet_res:getbyname

[Matthew O'Gorman]

any possible solutions for windows users? I ask as the reason I posted
in first place is my friend installed ejabberd for windows and didnt
work out of the box for him do to this issue.  I was able to get it
working for him with -name though, so he is fine now, I just imagine
its a common problem.
Anyways thanks for looking in to it and letting me know it will be
supported and maintained.

Mog

On 9/10/07, Raimo Niskanen <raimo+erlang-bugs@REDACTED> wrote:
> Well, it is deprecated for A and AAAA lookups since it was
> impossible to make it behave like the native resolver on all
> platforms. For DNS lookups where you really want just a DNS
> lookup it is still needed, so we can not remove it and
> have to fix bugs in it.
>
> In other words: it is and will be maintained.
>
> That it only works in conjunction with the -name option
> I also regard as a bug, but behaviour in this area has always
> been very sensitive to change, so improving this might
> break code for paying customers.
>
> I will try to investigate the possibility to always read
> /etc/resolv.conf on all Unixes to set up inet_res. That does
> not sound like a too dangerous change for R12, but I do not
> have the final word here...
>
> The workaround below does work, but that function is on the
> "possible to remove" list. Another more supported way of
> doing exactly the same thing is to create a file e.g
> "~/.inetrc" containing:
> ---------------cut
> {file,resolv,"/etc/resolv.conf"}.
> ---------------cut
> and then either set the environment variable
> ERL_INETRC="~/.inetrc"
> or, set the Erlang kernel application parameter "inetrc" to
> the same filename either on the command line like this:
> $ erl -kernel inetrc "\"~/.inetrc\""
> or in the Erlang start script (I have never done it).
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 11:41:37AM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> > Matthew O'Gorman wrote:
> > > Exactly, I do want to do a dns query on the srv, currently the only
> > > way i know to do that is using inet_res, which is deprecated and
> > > broken for everything but -name, if there is to be a replacement or
> > > there is another way to make it work I would appreciate knowing it.
> > >
> > > Mog
> >
> > I'm able to use inet_res also on nodes with short names (-sname) if I
> > call inet_db:add_resolv:
> >
> >      inet_db:add_resolv("/etc/resolv.conf").
> >
> > Btw, why not always use long node names (-name)?
> >
> > Mikael
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