Hi Quan, I've fixed this problem. Working version is available from CVS. Thanks for reporting this problem. Cheers, Fons. Quan Zhu wrote: > > The Linux machine I setup on our LAN gets only an ip address, but no > hostname. Although applications like ping, telnet, ftp all seem to work > fine (java's socket class also seem to work ok as well), but root's > TSocket, TNetFile, TFile/rootd doesn;t seem to work with machines that > only has an ip address. > > I think the problem comes from the 'gethostbyaddr' call, which would fail > when the machine you connect to (from another on the LAN) has only ip > address (this is the case for my machine). but I'm not sure about this. > > quan > > ________________ > USTC Alumni Email System, http://mail.ustc.edu, FREE Signup. -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7677910
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