[Zope] Zope 2.0.0a1 on DHCP?

[Michael Bernstein]

Bill Anderson wrote:
> 
> Michael Bernstein wrote:
> >
> > I have successfully installed and compiled Zope 2.0.0a1 on my home
> > machine, but cannot seem to get it to start. I believe that the reason
> > is that it's connection to the net is a cable-modem, and it's using
> > DHCP.
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered this? I've succesfully installed Zope 2.0 on
> > another machine with a static IP address at work.
> >
> > BTW, I am not so concerned about making this installation externally
> > accessible (though it would be nice), but mainly want to do development
> > at home as well.
> >
> 
> What port are you trying to use? If ==80, you have two issues: you would
> need to be root, and youe would have to turn off apache (on by default
> in rehdat installs). I use it with a dhcp address just fine (even on my
> production servers).
> 

Actually there was a port 80 bug, as described in this post to another
thread:

> >Ok, I realize I am probably exposing myself as a Linux newbie, but Zope
> >will not start up on port 80. I realize this is because of some sort of
> >security measure, as Zope is running as the user nobody, and Linux does
> >not give anyone other than root the ability to assign ports lower than
> >1024.
> >
> >How do I get around this? I need to access this system through a
> >firewall without letting any more ports through.
>
> This is a bug now fixed in the CVS. The startup script first switches to 
> user nobody, and then tries to bind to port 80, a privileged port. The 
> latest version in the CVS reverses this.

But the problem I described here turned out to be my own fault, as I had
a hostname conflict, which was causing socket.gethostbyname to barf.

Cheers,

Michael Bernstein.