Mac OS X

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Peter,
   Well, we can special case it.  We're just doing
the gethostbyname() in case the config passed a host
name instead of an address.  If this the essence of
the problem?

Carter

Carter Bullard
QoSient, LLC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Peter Van Epp
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:59 AM
> To: argus
> Subject: Mac OS X
> 
> 
> 	It appears OS X is unhappy about looking up 0.0.0.0 
> with gethostbyname. What we do about it I'm not sure ...
> 
> OS X:
> 
> 1685          if ((alist = argus_nametoaddr(str)) != NULL)  {
> (gdb) 
> argus_nametoaddr (name=0xbfffe71b "0.0.0.0") at ./argus_filter.c:4476
> 4476       if ((hp = gethostbyname(name)) != NULL) {
> (gdb) 
> 4488          return 0;
> (gdb) 
> 4489    }
> (gdb) print hp
> $7 = (struct hostent *) 0x0
> (gdb) s
> RaParseCIDRAddr (str=0xbfffe71b "0.0.0.0") at ./ramon.c:1698
> 1698             error++;
> 1685          if ((alist = argus_nametoaddr(str)) != NULL)  {
> (gdb) 
> argus_nametoaddr (name=0xbfffe71b "0.0.0.0") at ./argus_filter.c:4476
> 4476       if ((hp = gethostbyname(name)) != NULL) {
> (gdb) 
> 4488          return 0;
> (gdb) 
> 4489    }
> (gdb) print hp
> $7 = (struct hostent *) 0x0
> (gdb) s
> RaParseCIDRAddr (str=0xbfffe71b "0.0.0.0") at ./ramon.c:1698
> 1698             error++;
> 
> FreeBSD:
> 
> 1679             if ((ptr = strchr (str, '/')) != NULL) {
> (gdb) 
> 1685          if ((alist = argus_nametoaddr(str)) != NULL)  {
> (gdb) 
> argus_nametoaddr (name=0xbfbfe8af "255.255.255.255") at 
> ./argus_filter.c:4476
> 4476       if ((hp = gethostbyname(name)) != NULL) {
> (gdb) 
> 4482          for (p = (unsigned int **)hp->h_addr_list; *p; ++p)
> (gdb) 
> 4483             NTOHL(**p);
> (gdb) 
> 4482          for (p = (unsigned int **)hp->h_addr_list; *p; ++p)
> (gdb) print hp
> $1 = (struct hostent *) 0x281340b0
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
> 
> 
>