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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Peter Elmer wrote:

>>>  (With my Babar hat on): note that you shouldn't be deploying this
>>> development version at FZK on the systems used by BaBar. This version
>>> is under test, not for production use.
>>>
>>>  BTW, if you are still worried about the DNS problems, did you see my
>>> mail about this the other day? (i.e. Jos checked and fixed the /etc/hosts
>>> files, so could you check again that you still have the DNS problem/crash?)
>>
>> Yes, I saw that. There are now no problem on the server for which the
>> hosts were changed. It seems Jos forgot 3 of the servers so for the moment
>> I am runnig an old version there. (The latest dvlp version 20050328-0656
>> also do not work with the DNS problem: I understood from your announcement
>> that the DNS problem was fixed there.)
>
>  Ok, this is useful to know in any case. Andy added code that tries to
> detect and avoid crashing for odd DNS configurations (plus he added some
> printout to help debugging). When you say that it doesn't work, what do you
> mean? Does it crash? Does it just exit and refuse to run? Could you send the
> traceback and/or logfile so Andy could take a look at it?

What crashes is xrootd on the dataserver. It crashes the same way as it 
did in the previous version:

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xb7407198 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x08079d31 in XrdNet::Trim ()
#2  0x0806d2b1 in XrdLink::Alloc ()
#3  0x080790b1 in XrdInet::Accept ()
#4  0x0806f6d7 in main ()

-- Gregory