RE: [Ganglia-developers] (no subject)

[Adesanya, A. <ye...@sl...>]

Hi Matt.

I tried "telnet 127.0.0.1 8649" as well as telnet using the actual IP address of the host and in both cases I get the same result as with a host name (no XML output).

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Yemi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Massie [mailto:massie@CS.Berkeley.EDU] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:37 AM
> To: kn...@kn...
> Cc: Ganglia Developers; Adesanya, Adeyemi
> Subject: Re: [Ganglia-developers] (no subject)
> 
> thanks for martin's sleuthing i think i understand what might 
> be going on here.
> 
> the getaddrinfo() call was being given an AF_UNSPEC hint 
> which meant that either a IPv4 or IPv6 address was 
> acceptable.  since the machines had IPv6 interfaces.. 
> getaddrinfo was return the IPv6 interfaces. 
> that's ok.
> 
> but when a person went to connect to the IPv6 address to get 
> the XML...
> the call to inet_ntop also had AF_INET hardcoded as the first 
> parameter.
> 
> given that the address is really an AF_INET6 inet_ntop would 
> fail giving us the address 0.0.0.0.
> 
> i have a question though... where you putting in the hostname 
> or IP address?  i suspect you were putting in the hostname 
> and when gmond resolved the name it got an IPv6 address.  can 
> you try running gmond explicitly stating an IPv4 address?
> 
> -matt
>