Re: cfagent - unknown host

[Jeremy Dreese]

I've tracked down my problem and as suspected, it's something on my end,
nothing with cfengine.  However, I could still use a bit of help.

The problem is that I was trying to compile cfengine under RedHat 7.3
and make sure it would work on my RedHat 9 machines (without having to
worry about library differences).  So I decided to compile under RH 7.3
with CFLAGS="-static".  On 7.3 machines, cfengine works fine.  On RH 9
machines, I get the error I posted previously.  I believe the pertinent
part is:

gethostbyname: : Inappropriate ioctl for device

So I guess my question is:  Is there a way to achieve what I want and
still have it work properly?  Or do I just need to compile and
distribute binaries for the two RH versions?

Thanks!

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 11:17, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> Maybe a timeout?
> I don't know what else to suggest. There cannot be anything
> wrong with the code since it seems to work for thousands of
> other users :( I would still guess something with the cnfiguration
> of DNS or name lookup.
> 
> M
> 
> On 14 Oct, Jeremy Dreese wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't seem to find anything wrong with
> > the DNS entry.  The hostname is "rhino.eg.bucknell.edu"; please feel
> > free to prove me wrong.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:41, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> >> This might be caused by a partial or incorrect registration
> >> in DNS, an Ipv6 compatible lookup etc.
> >> 
> >> The only difference between now and then is that if your system
> >> has they new BIND fnctions, it uses them. They are stricter than
> >> the old - more sensitive to faulty reverse PTR records.
> >> 
> >> Make sure that DNS is all okay. Shouldn't be any problems.
> >> 
> >> M
> >>