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