[Vm-dev] [commit][3485] update resolver local address discovery; it seem gethostbyaddr has been compromised by OS changes recently.

[tim Rowledge]

> On 15-11-2015, at 4:08 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:57:18PM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
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>>> On 05-11-2015, at 12:53 PM, commits at squeakvm.org wrote:
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>>> Revision: 3485
>>> Author:   rowledge
>>> Date:     2015-11-05 12:53:44 -0800 (Thu, 05 Nov 2015)
>>> Log Message:
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>>> update resolver local address discovery; it seem gethostbyaddr has been compromised by OS changes recently. Change to using ifgetaddrs and scanning for eth0 or wlan0 addresses, which looks like a good change on Raspbian at least.
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>> I???m very much a guess-and-hope guy when it comes to sockets, so please offer any improvements you can think of.
> 
> Hi Tim,
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> I just committed a small patch (in SVN trunk and oscog) for UDP connect that
> makes Bert's approach work:

Thanks Dave.


tim
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