[isf-wifidog] external dns resolution causing wifidog to fail

[Don Druce]

Hi

I have my entry for authentication server as localhost and 127.0.0.1 
<http://127.0.0.1> which is correct.

Did you try my recommendation ?   It worked for me !



Clifford wrote:
> Hello,
> I have my entry for authentication server as localhost and 127.0.0.1 
> <http://127.0.0.1> which is correct. However when wifidog starts it 
> appears to be contacting an external DNS server and trying to resolve 
> that address and when it can't it gives the error "cannot contact any 
> auth servers." It appears that wifidog doesn't attempt to contact the 
> server listening on localhost if it can't resolve the hostname 
> externaly. This is what I see in debug/foreground:
>
>
> [7][Tue Aug  5 10:39:32 2008][32120](util.c:137) Locking 
> wd_gethostbyname()
> [7][Tue Aug  5 10:39:32 2008][32120](util.c:137) wd_gethostbyname() locked
> [7][Tue Aug  5 10:39:32 2008][32120](util.c:152) Unlocking 
> wd_gethostbyname()
> [7][Tue Aug  5 10:39:32 2008][32120](util.c:152) wd_gethostbyname() 
> unlocked
> [7][Tue Aug  5 10:39:32 2008][32120](centralserver.c:256) Level 5: 
> Resolving popular server [www.google.com <http://www.google.com>] 
> succeeded = [209.85.171.104 <http://209.85.171.104>]
> [7][Tue Aug  5 10:39:32 2008][32120](centralserver.c:276) Level 5: 
> Marking auth server [localhost.localdomain ] as bad and trying next if 
> possible
>
>
> Can anybody help me to work around this or am I doing something wrong? 
> I guess since it is using library resolver routines it will never look 
> inside of /etc/hosts ???
>
> Thanks
> C.
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