On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 July 2012 21:47, Andrew Melo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey, >> >> Is it a known issue/planned feature to enable couch to accept a >> hostname for bind_address? Currently putting a hostname instead of an >> ip address causes couch to bomb in a weird way where the process is >> still alive, but the TCP port isn't bound, which is somewhat >> frustrating. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrew > > I don't think DNS is a dependency CouchDB should accept. On the other hand, > an error message would be desirable. Do you want to log a JIRA ticket > for that?
Sure, I'll file a JIRA for it. Though does erlang not provide an interface for gethostbynamel()? Thanks, Andrew > > A+ > Dave -- -- Andrew Melo
