[omniORB] ETS issues for upcoming 4.0 release

Duncan Grisby duncan@grisby.org
Mon Jan 6 12:20:03 2003


On Tuesday 10 December, jon.kristensen@kongsberg-simrad.com wrote:

[...]
> This brings me back to my initial question. When you have a dotted decimal
> address to begin with, is it then necessary to call any DNS functions at
> all? In my private fix I fake a hostent struct using the dotted decimal
> address string as the name and the value returned by inet_addr as the
> address. I have never had any problems with that solution.

You'll be pleased to hear that I've just checked in a change that gets
rid of LibcWrapper::gethostbyname() altogether. The new mechanism only
calls DNS related functions when it has to, so your ETS problem should
be solved.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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