Gethostbyname returns h_errno 2, when /etc/hosts has no info on solaris x86

Hello,
I am calling gethostbyname(native_machine_name) in our code, and we do not want this to be dependent on /etc/hosts file. So when we remove all entries from /etc/hosts file, it works well on sparc machine, but the same doesnt work on solaris x86 machine. gethostbyname returns null with errno 2.
Also "ping hostname" doesnt work on solaris x86 when there is no entry in /etc/hosts, but the same works on sparc machine.
Is there any such dependency on x86 machine? If there is any then how to achieve this functionality (to get host info without /etc/hosts)?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Ankur Gupta

Sounds like your name resolution isnt working.
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2014-03-03 17:45:00      14902 INF          1 DBMSrvCo A DBM Server client connection was established at 2014-03-03 17:45:00 (client process has process ID 14900 on computer transids.transaltus.com).
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2014-03-03 17:45:01      14902 INF          2 DBMSrvCo A DBM Server client connection was released (client process has process ID 14900 on computer transids.transaltus.com).

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I am writing this to get help.
I have a Solaris 10 box.
bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS soft19 5.10 Generic_125100-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-240
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# Internet host table
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.9.48.244 soft19-bge1 Secondary
10.9.16.121 soft19 loghost
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soft19
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soft19-bge1
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lo0: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge0: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.9.16.121 netmask ffffff00 broadcast X.X.X.255
bge1: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 3
inet 10.9.48.244 netmask ffffff00 broadcast X.X.X.255
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struct hostent *hp;
hp = ACE_OS::gethostbyname(myhostname); // myhostname is soft19
hp->h_addr_list[0] will give 10.9.16.121
Everything is correct here!!
Now I change the configuration a bit,
bash-3.00$ cat /etc/hosts
# Internet host table
127.0.0.1 localhost
#10.9.48.244 soft19-bge1 Secondary
10.9.16.121 soft19 loghost
10.9.48.244 soft19 Secondary
and now
hp->h_addr_list[0] will give 10.9.16.121
hp->h_addr_list[1] will give 10.9.48.244
but when I reboot the system, I get the following,
bash-3.00$ ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge0: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.9.16.121 netmask ffffff00 broadcast X.X.X.255
bge1: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 3
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ffffff00 broadcast X.X.X.255
And I know this is because
bash-3.00$ cat /etc/hostname.bge1
soft19-bge1
Now I change /etc/hostname.bge1 to have just soft19
and I reboot the system and what I see is this
bash-3.00$ ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge0: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.9.16.121 netmask ffffff00 broadcast X.X.X.255
bge1: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 3
inet 10.9.16.121 netmask ffffff00 broadcast X.X.X.255
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Now my question is
With this
struct hostent *hp;
hp = ACE_OS::gethostbyname(myhostname); // myhostname is soft19
I want to have the following,
hp->h_addr_list[0] will give 10.9.16.121
hp->h_addr_list[1] will give 10.9.48.244
How can I get this even if the system reboots?

Hi, Thanks, but I know this. And was expecting the same.
But my question still remains unanswered..
How to tweak /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname.bgeN files for....
With this code
struct hostent *hp;
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I want to have the following,
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hp->h_addr_list[1] will give 10.9.48.244
One more thing, I want to get this all the time, even my system reboots.
I know a method to get below [by modifying /etc/hosts file]
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hp->h_addr_list[1] will give 10.9.48.244
but this will not work when the system reboots? I am looking for a permanent solution.
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While doing some testings with my network this afternoon, I noticed that there's this strange line in my /etc/hosts file:
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127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost "
Not sure what it means... may be a 16 bit number though! :-D

Appending a blocklist to /etc/hosts

Is it possible to append a blocklist (er... redirectlist) to /etc/hosts somehow?
For example, mvps has been supplying a very nice list of known parasite websites for years. Basically, it just uses 127.0.0.1 to redirect known bad websites so they don't load. It's a nice system-wide method to block them. I have been pasting their list into my /etc/hosts but am wondering if I can someone call it as I do in bash scripts.
For example, this doesn't work, but you get idea:
$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost novelty
192.168.1.1 router
192.168.1.2 inky
192.168.1.3 blinky
. /etc/hostsmvps # try to load the mvps redirect list

Wintervenom wrote:
Copy your local machine and network hosts to "/etc/hosts.local," then:
#!/bin/dash
### MVPS Hosts Updater #########
# Version 0.3 by Scott Garrett #
# Wintervenom [(at)] gmail.com #
# Download the MVPS hosts file.
wget -c -O /tmp/hosts.txt http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
# Be paranoid and replace every IP address with 0.0.0.0. We also get
# only want the actual blacklist, 'cause we want to prepend the user's
# own hosts. 0.0.0.0 is nicer than constantly knocking on localhosts' door.
sed -r -e 's:^([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}:0.0.0.0:' /tmp/hosts.txt > /tmp/hosts.new.txt
tail -n+`grep -nF 'start of lines' /tmp/hosts.new.txt | cut -d':' -f1` /tmp/hosts.new.txt > /tmp/hosts.txt
# Write this new list over the system hosts list. MVPS' line feeds
# are \n\r; we will be getting rid of those dirty carriage returns.
# We'll first write the user's hosts head, then the black list.
cat /etc/hosts.local > /etc/hosts
cat /tmp/hosts.txt | tr -d "\r" >> /etc/hosts
rm /tmp/hosts*.txt
# This is the end!
Thanks for the script, I actually wrote one very similar to yours but then thought I'd ask about sourcing it like a bash script does...
Last edited by graysky (2010-10-10 16:04:16)

Pacman ignores /etc/hosts

I use csslayer-aur-repo which is placed on googlecode.com server, however csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com sometimes returns IP of server which doesn't seem to have csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz file. As a workaround i've put csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com in /etc/hosts with an IP which works just fine. I've tested it with wget and ping, and both of them seem to use this "new" IP address. However pacman seems to ignore /etc/hosts and picks that random IP which mostly leads to "404 not found" error when doing pacman -Syu/Syy/Sy.
Here is my /etc/hosts
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Archie
209.85.135.82 csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com
# End of file
and here is the repo entry from pacman.conf:
[csslayer-aur-repo]
Server = http://csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com/files

Yup, wget fetches http://csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com … .db.tar.gz just fine and it uses the IP specified in /etc/hosts.
Surely pacman does not deploy its own DNS server, but seems to ignore /etc/hosts. If i remove csslayer line from /etc/hosts then wget also will fail.
[hash@Archie ~]$ wget http://csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com/files/csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz
--2010-07-26 18:54:29-- http://csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com/files/csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz
Translacja csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com... 209.85.135.82
Łączenie się z csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com|209.85.135.82|:80... połączono.
Żądanie HTTP wysłano, oczekiwanie na odpowiedź... 200 OK
Długość: 1190 (1,2K) [application/x-gzip]
Zapis do: `csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz'
100%[=============================================================================================================================================================================>] 1.190 --.-K/s w 0,02s
2010-07-26 18:54:30 (72,5 KB/s) - zapisano `csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz' [1190/1190]
[hash@Archie ~]$ pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
kde-unstable is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
error: nie udało się pobrać pliku 'csslayer-aur-repo.db.tar.gz' z csslayer-aur-repo.googlecode.com : Not Found
error: failed to update csslayer-aur-repo (Not Found)
Last edited by hash (2010-07-26 16:55:47)

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