gethostbyname in GoAhead

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Nick and Chris:
What is the 'final' recommendation on how to set up the root fs and contects for 
GoAhead? 

Sorry I lost track; too busy stuffing more RAM on my prototype !

Keith


> 
> 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
>