[Erlyaws-list] weird Mac issues

[Yariv S. <ya...@gm...>]

Hi,

I just made a clean install of Yaw 1.63 on my MacBook, and I'm
experiencing some strage behavior. When I start Yaws, I see the
following log lines:

=INFO REPORT==== 19-Jun-2006::23:35:08 ===
Yaws: Listening to 0.0.0.0:8000 for servers
 - http://mb.local:8000 under
/Users/yariv/Desktop/yaws-1.63/yaws/scripts/../www
 - http://localhost:8000 under /tmp

mb.local is my computer's self assigned domain. When I go to
http://mb.local:8000 in the browser, the browser hangs for a while.
Apparently, the browser can't resolve the host name. Indeed, typing
"host mb.local" yields

mb:~ yariv$ host mb.local
Host mb.local not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

However, when I manually type my IP address,
http://192.168.1.110:8000/, I see the proper Yaws welcome page. This
is a bit weird, but it looks like a Mac issue, and at least Yaws
works.

Now to the weirder issue: I created a file "test.yaws" in /tmp with
the following content:

<erl>
out(A) ->
  {ehtml, {p, [], "foo"}}.
</erl>

For some reason, when I go to http://localhost:8000/test.yaws, Yaws
returns to the browser the source code of test.yaws, not the result of
the compiled page. This happens with any .yaws file -- Yaws never
compiles it. This problem does not show up with the former access
method: http://192.168.1.110:8000/.

To summarize, 'localhost' works fine, but both 'mb.local' and
'192.168.1.110' break in different ways.

Has anyone noticed such behavior? If so, have you been able to fix it?

Thanks in advance
Yairv