Compiling Bind 9.3.1 on OS/2

[Paul Smedley]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:12:38 UTC, "Paul Smedley" 
<paulat at smedleydot.info> wrote:

> Hi Stefan!
> 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:54:06 UTC, Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > nslookup tries to lookup the hostname for 192.168.0.2, and that fails,
> > causing nslookup to also fail. Try using dig (if you search the archive,
> > it's the recommended tool).
> Dig gives a similar error.
> 
> 
> > And 49160 is the port number, no need to worry about it :). Really,
> > stripping it off in the code wouldn't be advisable.
> Yeah I've now worked this out for myself :) It was my first guess when
> I saw the conenction error :)
> 
> > I can't help you with the error in the log though, but it seems that BIND
> > received nslookup's PTR query and fails to resolve it. I won't go into
> > further speculation, since I don't know the code in order to explain what
> > the sendto error means ("invalid file").
> Well in the snippet of log there is a reference to socket.c line 1118.
>  This is a sendmsg() call which is failing with invalid parameter for 
> some reason :(
> 
> > Have you tried searching the archives? There are some entries showing up,
> > not sure if they're related to your case:
> Will take a look - I did try googling without much success but I've 
> investigated the code a bit more now :)
> 
> > Another message mentions an older version of BIND (are you sure you're
> > running 9.3.1 btw?):
> Yes - well actually I updated to 9.3.2rc1 since - but same problem 
> with sendmsg()
> 
Found the problem - in the msghdr struct - msg_namlen = 28 when it 
needs to be 16 to get a valid sendmsg() - now to work out WHY it's = 
28....

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Cheers,

Paul.