[15856] in Athena Bugs
truncated hostname
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David K Krikorian)
Sun Mar 22 03:59:52 1998
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 03:59:48 -0500
From: David K Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-olc@MIT.EDU
We've gotten a few logs about Matisse failing to resolve the hostname
TEN-THOUSAND-DOLLAR-BILL.MIT.ED. Note the missing 'U'. That name
is 31 characters long, suggesting that there's a 32-byte string
(including NULL) somewhere in olcd, and while ttdb's full name fits
other places (32-character array w/ no NULL termination?), it doesn't
fit in that one place.
I know people on ttdb are getting olc help, since I see questions in
the queue, so I'm guessing that some rarely-executed part of the
daemon (a function to accept email input?...) is using the short string.
--
David Krikorian <dkk@mit.edu>, radio: KA1NAP, groups: APO LSC SIPB Grey17,
employment: MIT/IS/Service/ASO (Athena Server Operations)
