On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:

> I had the exact same problem for a long time. Then I upgraded my Linux
> (from Debian 1.3.1 to a Red Hat 6.0 variant) and it went away. The
> exact same VMs and images now work perfectly, so it is certainly a
> Linux problem and not a Squeak one.
> 
> Everything else on the Linux box resolved names perfectly, and all of
> the rest of Squeak networking was in order as well (by using nslookup
> to manually resolve the names and typing in the IPs in Squeak the
> music/pages/etc would download).
> 
> I am sorry I can't help, but at least you can be sure that the fix is
> on the Linux side...

But even if the OS is wrong - if every other program manages to do fine,
why shouldn't Squeak? It really sounds like we should check h_errno first
after gethostbyname() and only return the result if there was no error.
Also, there's no handling for h_errno == TRY_AGAIN yet.

  -Bert-