[DGD] gethostbyname: No such file or directory

[Felix A. Croes]

Antony Riley <antony at flamefew.net> wrote:

> I had exactly the same problem when I first tried to use DGD.
>
> Turned out to be that the driver does a lookup on the hostname of the
> machine to get the address family to use when listening on ports.
>
> (why not just use AF_INET ?)

Because AF_INET was not defined on all of the unices that I wanted DGD
to run on.  Neither was PF_INET.  The latest version of DGD does use
AF_INET directly, though.


> It gets upset if it can't lookup the machine's own hostname.

Whatever you think of that, not having your own machine's hostname in
/etc/hosts is definitely an error in the system configuration.

Regards,
Dworkin
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