[plug] Problem with gethostbyname

[Leon Brooks]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:55, Tony Clark wrote:
> quoting "Mark A. Sasse" <biker at bigpond.net.au>:
>> can't verify hostname :
>> gethostbyname(CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au)
>> failed

> Seems like it is failing on a reverse DNS lookup.  Does the machine
> really exist in Bigponds DNS.  It doesn't seem to resolve to anything
> here.

[leonb at leon leonb]$ host -v CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au
Trying "CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60274
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
CPE-144-137-234-225.wa.bigpond.net.au. 86400 IN A 144.137.234.225

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wa.bigpond.net.au.      86400   IN      NS      ns2.wa.bigpond.net.au.
wa.bigpond.net.au.      86400   IN      NS      ns3.wa.bigpond.net.au.
wa.bigpond.net.au.      86400   IN      NS      ns1.wa.bigpond.net.au.

Received 125 bytes from 192.168.255.254#53 in 461 ms

Try that or nslookup from the command line. If that fails, maybe you have a 
problem with your DNS configuration? Start at /etc/resolv.conf

Cheers; Leon