-----Original Message----- From: Henrik "Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:06 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit bbtest-net crashing
In <A3D12FAD74FC8B46991703F40C182BABA20D5B4F at permls102.wde.woodside.com.au> "Everett, Vernon" <Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> writes:
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Below are our 5 most recent cores. And the corresponding entry in the bb-network.log file where available. (No= t all generate the entry in the log file)
It seems the problems occur in the C-ARES library which is used for hostname lookups (via DNS).
Hobbit 4.2.0 uses version 1.2.1 of C-ARES; the current version is 1.5.3. Unfortunately there's been a small change of the C-ARES API, so we cannot just drop version 1.5.3 of the library into Hobbit 4.2.0. But it would be nice to know if the problem is still there in the latest version.
If you want to try that, you can grab version 1.4.0 from http://c-ares.haxx.se/c-ares-1.4.0.tar.gz and then change Hobbit's build/Makefile.rules: The "ARESVER" setting should be "1.4.0". Then "make clean; rm -rf bbnet/c-ares/* bbnet/libcares.*; make" and copy bbnet/bbtest-net to ~hobbit/server/bin/
If you want to try out the 1.5.3 version, drop me a mail and I'll send you the patches needed for this to compile with Hobbit 4.2.0.
I've been using version 1.3.2 for over a year now without any problems.
Greg