#7 Can't start stafproc.exe under NT

[Clinton Grant]

I have an NT box that cannot start stafproc. The error
message reads 'Error on gethostbyaddr()'.

The cause is that WSANO_DATA is returned by Winsock
after the call to gethostbyaddr. If you ignore this and
continue (which I believe is okay), then stafproc runs
fine.

See the attached patch file.

Thanks for a great testing framework!

Clint

[Clinton Grant]

Patch for stafif/win32/STAFSocketFuncs.cpp

[David Michael Bender]

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Can you provide some more detailed information on which
version of NT this occurs on? I have a Windows NT SP6a
machine on which our existing code (without the patch)
starts correctly.

[Clinton Grant]

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Yep sure:

It's running NT 4.0 Worksation with service pack 6a. In
window update, it's got all current patches installed. The
networking setup is using TCP/IP with DHCP enabled. There's
no problem resolving addresses on the intranet, or the
internet so the DNS setup is working okay.

I've run STAF 2.6.5 on other NT 4.0 boxes and it starts okay
as well, so I think there's something strange about this
particular machine (or our network setup for that machine).