Hi Fabrizio, OK, I will change it so that the full name is returned. Additionally, if no translation is available, DNS will return the IP address of '0.0.0.0'. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabrizio Furano" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Andrew Hanushevsky" <[log in to unmask]> Cc: "Peter Elmer" <[log in to unmask]>; "Xrootd Mailing List" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:08 AM Subject: Out-of domain clients > Hi, > > I got this behavior from running a (reading!) client in Padova to a > redirector at slac: > > 050621 15:59:28 001 Xrd: HandleServerError: Received redirection to > [noric04:1094]. Token=[]. > 050621 15:59:28 001 Xrd: GetDomainToMatch: GetHostName(noric04) returned > name=127.0.0.1 > > It seems that the redirector does not send the complete name of the > redirection destination, causing the client to fail, because it lies in a > different domain where noric04 makes no sense. > > Also, it seems that XrdNetDNS::GetHostName returns 127.0.0.1 for an > unknown host, which is wrong. > > Is there a workaround for this? > > > Fabrizio > >