On 3/13/06, Martin Koekenberg <martin@digital-adventures.nl> wrote:

Module OFS.Image, line 269, in _range_request_handler Module mimetools, line 130, in choose_boundary

gaierror: (-2, ' Name of service not known ')

In order to send partial responses (such as Acrobat Reader might issue for a web-optimized PDF), the File object uses the mimetypes.choose_boundary method to serve multiple such partial responses. The choose_boundary method, in turn, attempts to generate a unique boundary string, and uses various OS parameters to do so. One of these is the ip address of the host, which choose_boundary obtains by looking at the current hostname, then asking for the ip address belonging to that hostname. The latter step fails. You can reproduce this by opening a python interpreter prompt and typing the following: >>> import socket >>> hostname = socket.gethostname() >>> print hostname yourhostnamehere >>> socket.gethostbyname(hostname) 'your.ip.address.here' The latter will probably throw the same error as above. To fix this you'll have to either bug your system admin, or acquire enough UNIX sysop knowledge to fix the problem yourself. I suspect that the hostname has no DNS entry anywhere; adding it to /etc/hosts should be enough. -- Martijn Pieters