Re: gethostbyaddr mal.. (not an answer)

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 01/23/98


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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