The following reply was made to PR os-osf/463; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Brett McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: os-osf/463: virtualhost support functionally broken
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:52:59 -0700 (PDT)
What does inet_network return? Hasn't OSF become DGUX?
Dean
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Brett McCormick wrote:
>
> Fairly certain. Here's where the problem lies: inet_addr returnes -1
> (INADDR_NONE) on failure, which gets assigned to my_addr (unsigned
> long int). That is then compared to INADDR_NONE (0xffffffff), which
> isn't casted to a long int. So, -1 != 0xffffffff.. I suppose the
> correct fix would be to leave DEFAULT_VHOST_ADDR with the 'ul' at the
> end, and then cast INADDR_NONE to unsigned long in the comparison.
>
> } else if(
> #ifdef DGUX
> ( my_addr = inet_network(w) )
> #else
> ( my_addr = inet_addr(w) )
> #endif
> != INADDR_NONE ) {
> is_an_ip_addr = 1;
> }
>
> There are no errors starting up, and here are my virtualhost lines:
>
> <Virtualhost www.prorental.com>
> DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/httpd/sites/prorental/docs
> </VirtualHost>
>
> <Virtualhost www.hedgescellars.com>
> DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/httpd/sites/hedgescellars/docs
> </VirtualHost>
>
> No matter what i ask for (localhost, www.prorental.com,
> www.hedgescellars.com) I get www.prorental.com..
>
> On Wed, 23 April 1997, at 13:01:08, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>
> > This code was changed to use an unsigned long specifically *because* of
> > OSF/1 and the alpha chip. Are you absolutely sure that this is the
> > problem? If we change it back it's likely to break the config of the
> > person that asked us to change it to a long.
> >
> > Are there any errors while starting up?
> >
> > Can you send me the <VirtualHost> lines from your config?
> >
> > Dean
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Brett McCormick wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > The contract type is `' with a response time of 3 business hours.
> > > A first analysis should be sent before: Wed Apr 23 14:00:01 PDT 1997
> > >
> > >
> > > >Number: 463
> > > >Category: os-osf
> > > >Synopsis: virtualhost support functionally broken
> > > >Confidential: no
> > > >Severity: critical
> > > >Priority: medium
> > > >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project)
> > > >State: open
> > > >Class: sw-bug
> > > >Submitter-Id: apache
> > > >Arrival-Date: Wed Apr 23 11:20:01 1997
> > > >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >Organization:
> > > apache
> > > >Release: 1.2b8
> > > >Environment:
> > > Digital Unix (OSF/1) 4.0, gcc 2.7.2.1
> > > >Description:
> > > Virtualhosts do not operate correctly. The first virtualhost (and not
> > > the main
> > > server) serves all requests. This is due to get_addresses storing the
> > > ip addr
> > > in a long int, which on an alpha is 64bit. DEFAULT_VHOST_ADDR is also
> > > specified
> > > as a long.
> > > >How-To-Repeat:
> > > just try to use virtualhosts on a platform with 64bit longs
> > > >Fix:
> > > change the type of my_addr in get_addresses (http_config.c) to a 32-bit
> > > type.
> > > change the definition of DEFAULT_VHOST_ADDR to be 32-bit (i don't think
> > > this
> > > is neccesary, but it might be)
> > > >Audit-Trail:
> > > >Unformatted:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
