Re: ypset(8) attempts to bind to Weird IP (and possible solution)

2004-01-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:19:58PM -0800, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: The problem seems to come in at lines 142/143: before this, sin.sin_addr.s_addr is localhost (as set at line 130), as is hent-h_addr_list[0][0]. *After* this, it's set with the Weird IP, bind_tohost() is called,

Re: ypset(8) attempts to bind to Weird IP (and possible solution)

2004-01-19 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
Matthew Seaman disturbed my sleep to write: Please do submit a PR with your analysis and a patch. It's slightly perturbing that no-one spotted this a long time ago, but these things happen from time to time. Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'm glad to find out I'm not completely wrong

ypset(8) attempts to bind to Weird IP (and possible solution)

2004-01-18 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
A while back I came across some strange behaviour with ypset(8). I was having trouble at work making a host bind to our NIS server, so I thought I'd try using ypset. When running these commands: domainname [domain] ypbind ypset -h localhost -d [domain] 192.168.0.254 and