From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Neon and reverse address lookup
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 22:32:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738klou1c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140118124847.GA6166@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:48:47 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> when trying to package the neon library:
> http://www.webdav.org/neon/ ,
> the tests fail inside the chroot with
> addr_reverse (reverse lookup for 127.0.0.1 failed)
I just tried this and it fails with “Host name lookup failure”:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/.../bin/guile -s
!#
(use-modules (guix) (guix monads))
(define (with-/etc/hosts?)
(define b
'(and (file-exists? "/etc/hosts")
(pk 'gethostbyaddr
(hostent:name (gethostbyaddr
(inet-pton AF_INET
"127.0.0.1"))))
(call-with-output-file (assoc-ref %outputs "out")
(const #t))))
(mlet* %store-monad ((d (derivation-expression "etc-hosts" b)))
(built-derivations (list d))))
(let* ((s (open-connection)))
(run-with-store s (with-/etc/hosts?)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
So /etc/hosts is not enough for reverse lookups to work.
With nscd turned off, I tried this:
guile -c '(pk (gethostbyaddr (inet-pton AF_INET "127.0.0.1")))'
If nsswitch.conf is removed, then that resolves to “localhost” (instead
of the actual host name.)
If, in addition, resolv.conf is removed, then that fails as seen above.
With nsswitch.conf alone, it resolves correctly (Mark was right.)
And this works with only “hosts: files” in nsswitch.conf.
It’s surprising that there’s this discrepancy between how NSS works for
getaddrinfo and for gethostbyaddr. At any rate, we may be able to solve
this at the libc level.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-18 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 12:48 Neon and reverse address lookup Andreas Enge
2014-01-18 14:17 ` John Darrington
2014-01-18 14:43 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-18 14:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-18 16:45 ` Andreas Enge
2014-01-18 16:48 ` John Darrington
2014-01-18 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-18 20:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-18 21:32 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-01-18 21:49 ` John Darrington
2014-01-18 21:55 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-19 15:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-05 17:30 ` Andreas Enge
2014-02-05 20:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
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