Hi all,
This info was reported to me. As a Linux-newbie I have no idea if it
will prove helpful to others.
I've just done a bit of browsing with `strace' on my machine here at
work, at it's looking like a configuration issue. Running `strace'
on either mprime 19 or the glibc2-linked mprime 18 reveals a slight
difference in hostname lookups compared with the original libc5-linked
mprime 18. The newer versions consult /etc/nsswitch.conf (exactly as
expected since this was one of the changes with glibc2), while
the
older version consults /etc/host.conf. (I just verified that glibc2
falls thru to use /etc/host.conf if /etc/nsswitch.conf doesn't exist.)
The problem on this system is that /etc/host.conf was specifying
"order hosts" instead of "order hosts,bind". Making the change now
allows the older mprime to contact the Primenet server.
Regards,
George
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