gethostbyname in GoAhead

Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk
Wed May 24 14:51:23 UTC 2000


DOH!  I didn't mkdir....


-- Nick Simon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk 
> [mailto:Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk]
> Sent: 24 May 2000 15:22
> To: cjohns at cybertec.com.au
> Cc: rtems-users at oarcorp.com
> Subject: RE: gethostbyname in GoAhead
> 
> 
> Hmm, I can't create a file with a '/' in its pathname.  
> Should I be able to?
> 
> 
> 
> -- Nick Simon 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Johns [mailto:cjohns at cybertec.com.au]
> > Sent: 24 May 2000 13:54
> > To: Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk
> > Cc: rtems-users at oarcorp.com
> > Subject: Re: gethostbyname in GoAhead
> > 
> > 
> > Nick.SIMON at syntegra.bt.co.uk wrote:
> > > 
> > > My web server startup is failing because it uses gethostname and
> > > gethostbyname to find the card's own IP address.  I don't 
> > really want to
> > > have my card registered with any off-card directory servers 
> > at the moment,
> > > is there any way of feeding the card's host entry into the 
> > stack so that
> > > gethostbyname works, or will I have to change GoAhead?
> > > 
> > 
> > Create a file called `/etc/host.conf' and put in it :
> > 
> >   hosts,bind
> > 
> > Then create a file `/etc/hosts' and put in it :
> > 
> >   127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain  localhost
> > 
> > To create file files you need to call `mkdir' then `open' etc.
> > 
> > I have some C code which creates these files which I can send 
> > you if you
> > wish.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Chris Johns, mailto:cjohns at cybertec.com.au mailto:ccj at acm.org
> > 
> 



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