Re: ORBit2 2.9.6: linc2/test/test-linc fails on missing reverse DNS

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Richard,

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 13:17, Richard Dawe wrote:
> The test fails, because link_protocol_get_sockinfo fails.
> link_protocol_get_sockinfo calls link_protocol_get_sockinfo_ipv4, which
> uses gethostbyaddr, which fails for my dev box, since it has no reverse
> DNS entry (see above).

	Ah; ok.

> Basically I was wondering whether the test should just warn that this
> failed, rather than it being an error (and hence a failure).

	Well - I'd rather force people to run the tests with working reverse
lookup and exercise all the code paths, than routinely omit thousands of
critical code paths from being tested at release :-)

> Is there functionality in ORBit2 that requires reverse DNS lookups to
> succeed?

	In the default / Gnome setup many of those paths are not used; there is
no requirement for reverse DNS to work unless you want to use IPv4 /
off-machine comms.

	HTH,

		Michael.

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