[erlang-questions] {error,timeout} with gethostbyname

[info]

Hi !
Thank you for your help !
Here is what you want :

[{socks5_noproxy,[]},
 {res_recurse,1},
 {res_id,0},
 {hostname,"my_host"},
 {res_alt_ns,[]},
 {cache_refresh_interval,3600000},
 {res_inet6,false},
 {socks5_port,1080},
 {socks5_methods,[none]},
 {res_timeout,2000},
 {cache_size,100},
 {res_domain,[]},
 {res_retry,3},
 {res_ns,[]},
 {res_lookup,[native,file]},
 {sctp_module,inet_sctp},
 {udp_module,inet_udp},
 {tcp_module,inet_tcp},
 {socks5_server,[]},
 {res_search,[]},
 {res_usevc,false}]

I am running R13B01

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:31:35PM +0200, info wrote:
> Hi all,
> On a windows 2003 server sbs this command returns {ok,"my_host"} :
> 
> {ok,N}=inet:gethostname().
> 
> But the following command returns {error,timeout} :
> 
> inet:gethostbyname(N).
> 
> On a Vista machine, the previous command returns a correct answer.
> 
> I know that it is not an erlang problem but if you could give me support, I will appreciate ;-)

Erlang may have problems configuring name lookups.
Give me the output from ets:tab2list(inet_db).

Which erlang release are you running, it sounds like pre-R13B02?

Try starting with erl -name foo
and do the same, ets:tab2list/1 too.

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB