Linux-Hams archive - January 1998: Re: gethostbyname crashes 'puter!
Re: gethostbyname crashes 'puter!
Richard Adams (smhyqrod@rele.tunk.net)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:47:53 +0000 (GMT)
According to James Jefferson, While burning my cpu.:
>
>
> >From jjeffers@nwo Sun Jan 4 17:35:14 1998
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:35:14 -0600
> From: James Jefferson <jjeffers@nwo>
> To: root@nwo
> Subject: *** SECURITY information ***
>
> Sun Jan 4 17:35:13 : jjeffers : gethostbyname() cannot find host nwo
>
> ----------------------------
> and nmbd (a samba deamon) was getting its self stuck in some sort of
> continual loop. I commented nmbd out of inetd and rebooted... There is no
> longer any inetd messages in the log files, but it still takes 5 minutes to
> telnet in. The mail message about gethostbyname still show up when I do a
> sudo....
>
> Can SOMEONE please help me! Is this the mysterious inetd bug?
The following is just a thought, but "might" be of "some" help.
gethostbyname() carries out domain name queries.
(nwo)
Are there no hints in the syslog?.
>
> TIA & 73's de
>
> -Jim Jefferson KB0THN
> lnc.robsvjgm@fial.com
> http://www.deskmedia.com/~jjeffers/
>
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