On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:07:11PM +0200, Ed Kapitein wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Perhaps you can debug it by using truss, a command to see how a program is > executed, and snoop, to trace network packets to and from the dnsserver. > > For all the other questions i hope someone else can help :-)
Maybe I'm not the right person to respond either. In general I'm not so sure DNS or other name lookup can be expected to work for link-local, but I think getnameinfo() should return the address when DNS fails (as if NI_NUMERICHOST is specified), unless it's called with NI_NAMEREQD. Stig > > Kind regards, > @ > > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 16:07, mclellan, dave wrote: > > Hi all: DUMB QUESTION ALERT: > > > > if I call getnameinfo() with a sockaddr_in6 that describes a link-local > > address on Solaris 2.8+, it returns EAI_FAIL (DNS non-recoverable error). > > The address is configured I the /etc/net/ipnodes file correctly, I think. > > that is, I can find the address given the name, but can't find the name > > given the address. > > > > 1) is this because it doesn't like link-local, and should I skip the > > getnameinfo() if I know it's a link-local (translate the address by > > inet_ntop for example). > > > > OR > > > > 2) should this work, and how might I best debug the DNS query to figure why > > the configuration is wrong. > > > > Thanks for any hint. > > > > > > > > Dave McLellan --Consulting Software Engineer - SPEA Engineering > > EMC Corporation > > 228 South St. Mail Stop: 228 LL/AA-24 > > Hopkinton, MA 01748 USA > > +1-508-249-1257 F: +1-508-497-8030 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The IPv6 Users Mailing List > > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
