problem with gethostbyname/1

[Magnus Fröberg]

Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> 
> I have never come across a Gentoo Linux box before. Could you dump the 
> following files as well as the output from os:type() and send to me?

Hi

we have done a fix to inet_config.erl for our Gentoo users.
It seems like Gentoo does not have the /etc/host.conf file so
we added usage of /etc/nsswitch.conf as well for 'linux' while
configuring the inet_db.

The diff below is against the R9C-0 version of inet_config.erl:

Index: lib/kernel/src/inet_config.erl
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/share/erlang/cvsroot/otp/lib/kernel/src/inet_config.erl,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.5
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.1.1.5 -r1.7
--- lib/kernel/src/inet_config.erl      2 Sep 2003 13:34:18 -0000       1.1.1.5
+++ lib/kernel/src/inet_config.erl      3 Sep 2003 13:53:57 -0000       1.7
@@ -82,8 +82,13 @@
                 'bsd/os' ->
                     load_resolv(filename:join(Etc,"irs.conf"), host_conf_bsdos);
                 linux ->
-                   load_resolv(filename:join(Etc,"host.conf"),host_conf_linux),
-
+                   case load_resolv(filename:join(Etc,"host.conf"),host_conf_li
nux) of
+                       ok ->
+                           ok;
+                       _Other ->
+                           load_resolv(filename:join(Etc,"nsswitch.conf"), nssw
itch_conf)
+                   end,
+
                     % It may be the case that the domain name was not set
                     % because the hostname was short. But we can now look it
                     % up and get the long name and the domain name from it.


/Magnus

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