On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > On 2007-07-24, Antonio Querubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The above would add an IPv4 dependency back into the code because of >> gethostbyname(), inet_ntoa(), and struct in_addr. At some point in the >> future your MySQL server may have an IPv6 address. > > Sorry, didn't realize that. Would a getaddrinfo/inet_ntop version be > interesting ?
That would certainly be better. If you implement this using getaddrinfo/w_inet_ntop then you probably should loop through all the returned addresses and attempt a connection to the mysql port. Break out of the loop on the first successful connection. >> More importantly though, shouldn't this problem be resolved at the mysql >> level since mysql_real_connect() doesn't require a numeric IP address for >> the server target? > > Sure, if I could find out how to make it resolve this within the chroot.. > Any ideas ? Specify the address instead of the hostname for now? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ policyd-users mailing list policyd-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/policyd-users
