Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:25891 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:16411 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!ukma!widener!brendan From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Subject: Re: traceroute hacking Message-ID: Date: Thu, 06 Jun 91 18:05:10 GMT Organization: Widener CS Dept References: <#W#-G5K@cs.widener.edu> <1991Jun6.060036.21126@Think.COM> Followup-To: alt.dev.null Lines: 20 barmar@think.com wrote: >In article <#W#-G5K@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu writes: >> Has anybody hacked on traceroute to have it do a T_PTR query to the >>nameserver for any Internet address that fails the gethostbyaddr() call? > >Don't hack traceroute, get a version of gethostbyaddr() that uses the >domain system. Or make sure the Berkeley resolv library you link it with is really the Berkeley library, not Sun's resolv (for some reason I forgot to move libresolv-bsd.a over to libresolv.a). <> Followups to /dev/null; flames to /dev/dsk/funny-farm, where I wanted to take a trip to when I realized why gethostbyaddr() was failing. Brendan -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone Vanilla Ice == Richard VanWinkle .. hehe .. hohoho .. Hahahahahahahaha.