Re: gnats/363: gnatsd access control by host name fails

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "LH" == Lars Henriksen <Lars.Henriksen@netman.dk> writes:

    LH> The host access file (gnatsd.host_access in Gnats 4) allows
    LH> hosts to be specified by name or IP address.

    LH> However, on Alpha machines (at least) host names cannot be used
    LH> because of a bug in getname() in gnatsd.c:

    LH> hp = gethostbyaddr ((char *) host, sizeof (host), AF_INET);

    LH> should be

    LH> hp = gethostbyaddr ((char *) host, sizeof (*host), AF_INET);

I think you're right, fixed.

Thanks,

Milan Zamazal

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