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

[Clifford]

It turned out to be a space character that was getting parsed as part of the
hostname. It seems to be ok now. It was a late night last night and I think
I wasn't thinking too clearly.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Don Druce <dondruce at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>  Hi
>
> I have my entry for authentication server as localhost and 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 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] succeeded = [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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