[erlang-questions] is inet:gethostbyname( IP ) correct?

[info]

OK, I found several versions in WinSxS.
Which one is the good one ?
Shall I copy it in system32 ?

John
Try searching from C:/WINDOWS. It may be under
C:/WINDOWS/System32 or hide under C:/WINDOWS/WinSxS/*/
somewhere.

It may also be so that the installer thought it did not
need to install msvcr80.dll, and is wrong about that.
Try re-installing Erlang and select the checkbox
about installing Microsoft Runtime. That way it is
certain Erlang uses the distributed runtime library.

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:53:07PM +0200, info wrote:
> And what about msvcr80.dll which is missing in my server ?
> 
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:46:50AM +0100, info wrote:
>  > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:29:20PM +0200, info wrote:
>  > I guess Robby wrote:
>  >   > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Raimo Niskanen     <
>  >   > raimo+erlang-questions@REDACTED    <raimo%2Berlang-questions@REDACTED    >
>  >   >    > wrote:
>  >   > 
>  >   >    > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:02:40PM +0200, info wrote:
>  >   >    >     > Dear Raimo,
>  >   >    >     > I can resume: I discovered that gethostbyname call inet_gethost.c
>  >   >    >     > I don't understand inet_gethost.c :-(
>  >   >    >     > Where "goes" this problem for finding the information ?
>  >   >    >     > If we know where and what, we could perhaps find what is missing in my
>  >   >    > windows 2003 ...
>  >   >    >     > Hope to read you soon !
>  >   >    >     > John
>  >   >    >
>  >   >    > Well, there is not much more to say. inet_gethost.c calls
>  >   >    > struct hostent *gethostbyname(const char *name) in the
>  >   >    > winsock2 library:
>  >   >    >  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738524(VS.85).aspx    <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms738524%28VS.85%29.aspx    >
>  >   >    > It never returns.
>  >   >    > It is deprecated but that does not mean broken.
>  >   >    > I have a Windows 2003 server that it works on.
>  >   >    > We have not found the reason it differs between
>  >   >    > my server and your server.
>  >   >    > And that is about it.
>  >   >    >
>  >   >    >
>  >   >    >
>  >   > I can consistently reproduce the hanging gethostbyname() in inet_gethost.exe
>  >   > on Windows 2003 when I have the 'Microsoft Firewall Client for ISA Server
>  >   > Version 4.0' installed. This is a specific add-on, nothing to do with
>  >   > Microsoft Firewall in your Network Properties.
>  >   > 
>  > 
>  > I guess info wrote:
>  >   > but I don't use ISA server !!!
>  >   > 
>  > 
>  > No other interesting firewall software?
>  > Yes: I am using Comodo.
> 
> Can you try to uninstall Comodo and see if the problem disappears.
> If so we know where to look for the problem.
> (We have installed a 2003 server with Comodo and got no problems,
>  other than the possibility to do configuration errors that
>  would cause your symptoms)
> 
>  > 
>  > I guess Robby wrote:
>  >   > If I remove it, it works fine, if I add it it hangs. Apart from that the
>  >   > W2003 build is as vanilla as it gets.
>  >   > 
>  >   > Nothing much to go on, but I would not be surprised if some system DLL is
>  >   > getting in the way. This is very hard to diagnose.
>  >   > 
>  >   > One day I'll get around to compiling inet_gethost.exe in my setup, just to
>  >   > rule out poor linkage due to the VC++ setup used to build the shipping
>  >   > executables. If I compile up a trivial gethostbyname() example from MSDN, it
>  >   > works OK in all circumstances.
>  >   > 
>  >   > There are a few strange dependencies in other shipped Windows files, for
>  >   > example beam.dll seems to depend on a particular MSVCR80.DLL with the
>  >   > version 8.0.50727.1433 . And if you have an older Windows machine, you get
>  >   > the completely unhelpful popup box telling you that your program could not
>  >   > be run. This has something to do with Windows Side-by-Side DLL deployment,
>  >   > and I completely fail to grasp what that's all about.
>  >   > 
>  > 
>  > I guess info wrote:
>  >   > but I don't have msvcr80.dll !!!
>  > 
>  > I guess you do, actually, since Erlang/OTP's installer is supposed
>  > to install that DLL, if it does not exist already.
>  > 
>  > I guess Robby wrote:
>  >   > 
>  >   > Robby
>  > 
>  > -- 
>  > 
>  > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
> 
> -- 
> 
> / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

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