http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6159
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-27 12:37 ------- btw, pinging another site than a mandrakesoft one could possibly seen as a distributed DOS, hence the ping on mandrakesoft.com -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: RESOLVED creation_date: description: Drakconnect uses a script tools.pm in /usr/lib/libDrakX/network The function connect2 is used to determine whether the connection is active or not, unfortunately it's based on gethostbyname(). When named is installed (for example because the DNS of our ISP are too unreliable...) the result is always true... so connection cannot be initiated (the button Connect is greyed). Here is a proposal of modification to add a ping that will really tell that the connection is active : ==== /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/tools.pm ==== sub connected2 { if ($kid_pid = open(my $kid_to_read, "-|")) { #- parent $kid_to_read; } else { #- child #my $a = gethostbyname("mandrakesoft.com") ? 1 : 0; # === nouveau test === use Net::Ping; use Socket; my $addr = gethostbyname("www.free.fr"); my $ip = inet_ntoa($addr); $p = Net::Ping->new(); my $a = ($p->ping($ip)) ? 1 : 0; $p->close(); # -------------------- print $a; c::_exit(0); } } Sorry, we've put free.fr instead of mandrakesoft.com, maybe there should be w3.org to please anybody ?
