[openbeosnetteam] Re: Progress on resolving host names in route/ping

> Hi, I'm having some issues in my efforts to debug.  I had reported
> earlier the segment violations that one gets when attempting to
> provide a hostname as an argument to route or ping (ie ping myhost). 
> It will take the hostname if it is the first one listed in the
> /etc/hosts file, but no other host names.
> 
> I have been looking through our libnet source trying to find where
> this is happening.  I have been looking in compat.c and
> gethostnamadr.c.  I have made a few changes to these two, but the
> changes were not taking effect upon rebuild.  I found that my builds
> are using the libnet.so file from BeOS, and not our libnet.so file. 

That should be not be an issue, as public API are exported by both.

> That would of course explain why my changes werent doing anything!

Sure :-)
 
> I think earlier there was an exhange about build build problems the
> Phillipe was going to fix...is this related?  

No, it's not.
Your "route" and "ping" are just runtime linked against BeOS R5 
libnet.so, 
which should not be the case.

> Does the latest CVS
> build the network kit with our library files?  

No, there are linked against R5 libnet.so.
As our own libnet.so should be binry compatible with R5 one, it's not 
the *real* issue I think.

> Alternatively, how do
> I rebuild our libraries and test ping and route against those?

To build, just run:
$ cd /path/to/your/local/openbeos/tree/current
$ jam libnet.so libnetapi.so

Then, check that your distro/x86.R1/beos/system/lib/libnet.so is copied
/symlinked into your ~/config/lib.
Last chance, create a "lib" folder under distro/x86.R1/beos/bin, and 
copy there libnet.so.
Rerun from there distro/x86.R1/beos/bin/ping (and/or route), this time 
*our* libnet.so implementation should be used.
 
-Philippe

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