Re: [naviserver-devel] Hostname/IP resolving?

[Vlad S. <vl...@cr...>]

We do use fully qualified hostnames but usually they are resolved or we 
specify exactly in nsd.tcl what hostname wqe are serving

Zoran Vasiljevic wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've been stumbling accross this part of the code in
> driver.c:
> 
>     /*
>      * If the listen address was not specified, attempt to determine it
>      * through a DNS lookup of the specified hostname or the server's
>      * primary hostname.
>      */
> 
>     if (address == NULL) {
>         he = gethostbyname(host ? host : Ns_InfoHostname());
> 
>         /*
>          * If the lookup suceeded but the resulting hostname does not
>          * appear to be fully qualified, attempt a reverse lookup on the
>          * address which often returns the fully qualified name.
>          *
>          * NB: This is a common but sloppy configuration for a Unix
>          * network.
>          */
> 
>         if (he != NULL && he->h_name != NULL &&
>             strchr(he->h_name, '.') == NULL) {
>             he = gethostbyaddr(he->h_addr, he->h_length, he->h_addrtype);
>         }
> 
> 
> My problem is: why on earth is this step needed at all?
> We do not make use of the fully qualified address, at least
> I do not see that.
> So why insist on getting one? Why not taking the address from
> the "he" as returned by gethostbyname?
> 
> Chees
> Zoran
> 
> 
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