Re: gethostbyaddr mal.. (not an answer)

From: Michael J. Fara (mulder@CLOUD9.NET)
Date: 01/24/98


Its SunOS..but I'll turn off reverse dns lookup and tell you what happens

At 11:50 PM 1/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Pure Krome wrote:
>
>>> Fri Jan 23 09:03:29 :: New connection.  Waking up.
>>> gethostbyaddr: Error 0
>>> Jan 23 09:04:06 :: Losing player: <null>.
>
>If it's Linux, the info for the foreign site goes away before the
>gethostbyaddr call can complete.  Otherwise, the site doesn't have a
>reverse lookup. Probably more answers also, I get them on Solaris often on
>on a machine with a reverse lookup.
>
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