RE: [Chromium-dev] domainname stripping

[Greg H. <hu...@cs...>]

Yeah, this is historical, and has messed us up in the past too.  We should
kill it.

--
Greg Humphreys, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
hu...@cs...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chr...@li... 
> [mailto:chr...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of David Jones
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 2:31 PM
> To: chr...@li...
> Subject: [Chromium-dev] domainname stripping
> 
> 
> 
> I was doing some chromium tests between two machines on different 
> clusters and ran into a problem that caused the mothership to 
> throw an 
> exception:
> 
> ...
> 
> Processing mothership request: "acceptrequest tcpip tg-v007 7000 0"
> 
> MOTHERSHIP EXCEPTION!  TERRIBLE!
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "../server/mothership.py", line 686, in Go
>     self.ProcessRequest( self.wrappers[sock] )
>   File "../server/mothership.py", line 1337, in ProcessRequest
>     fn( sock_wrapper, string.join( words[1:] ) )
>   File "../server/mothership.py", line 799, in do_acceptrequest
>     hostname = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
> gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
> 
> 
> My setup has a server running on foo.domain1.edu and the app and 
> mothership are running on bar.domain2.edu.  On the server, I set 
> the CR_HOSTNAME to foo.domain1.edu.  However, crTCPIPAccept 
> doesn't pass 
> foo.domain1.edu as an argument to acceptrequest.  It does this:
> 
> temp = crStrchr( my_hostname, '.' );
> if (temp) *temp='\0';
> 
> So just 'foo' gets sent as the hostname to the mothership which then 
> causes the exception since 'foo' doesn't exist on the 
> domain2.edu domain.  
> Unless there's a reason, can we get 'if (temp) *temp='\0';' 
> commented out 
> in tcpip.c?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> 
> 483,484c483,484
> <               temp = crStrchr( my_hostname, '.' );
> <               if (temp) *temp='\0';
> ---
> >               //temp = crStrchr( my_hostname, '.' );
> >               //if (temp) *temp='\0';
> 
> 
> 
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