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Wrapper question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Nov 6 15:46:33 2000
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From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hello,
Abby suggested I forward this question to you. I don't know who, if anyone, is
maintaining the wrapper since tb left MIT.
Alex
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Subject: Gratuitous use of gethostname() in slw.
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From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 05 Nov 2000 23:54:00 -0500
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Sender: "Aaron M. Ucko" <amu@daemon.mit.edu>
My laptop is running Debian Linux with some pieces of Athena,
including AFS. Under Debian, a machine's hostname [as reported by
gethostname()] is constant, rather than varying with any external IP
addresses it might have. I have things set up so that /etc/hosts maps
my machine's hostname to 127.0.0.1, which works well for most
purposes.
However, when I try to run wrapped software with such a setup, the
wrapper ends up send a packet to the license server with a source
address of 127.0.0.1, which doesn't work very well. Why doesn't it
simply send from INADDR_ANY?
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
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