[Zope] Solaris 8 issue?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Otten [mailto:rotten@colltech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Solaris 8 issue?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I recently (earlier today) installed Zope for the first time.
>   I am installing it on an Ultra 1, running Solaris 8.
> 
>   For my first attempt, I installed the Solaris 2.6 binary version.
>   It seems to start correctly, however I do get this error when it
> kicks off:
> 
> 2000-01-04T19:33:37 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname
> 
>   So, not sure what might cause this error I blew away my 
> install, grabbed
> the source, and built it myself (with gcc as the compiler).
> 
>   I still get that error.

Hmm.. the logic in the code isn't entirely clear to me, the error
implies that you can specify a hostname, but really it throws this error
if you don't specify an IP address for ZServer to bind to
(ZServer/medusa/http_server.py:559).  It's definatly not a very clear
error.

If you don't specify an IP addr, ZServer attempts to look up the
hostname from the ip address of the socket it creates.  What is also not
very clear is that if you ONLY get this error, then the reverse lookup
is sucessful.  If the lookup fails, then you will get another error
("Cannot do reverse lookup") and the IP addr of the socket will be
turned into a string and used for the server name.

Perhaps you could un-obfusicate this for us?  Patches accepted.

-Michel