Mldonkey hostname ??

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sat Jan 26 21:48:47 UTC 2008


William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I am trying to get mldonkey from livna repo running.  I get the
> following warning:
>         "]$ mlgui
>         2008/01/26 15:33:02 Starting MLDonkey 2.7.6 ... 
>         2008/01/26 15:33:02 Language EN, locale UTF-8, ulimit for open
>         files 1024
>         2008/01/26 15:33:02 MLDonkey is working in /home/bill/.mldonkey
>         2008/01/26 15:33:02 [DNS] Resolving [CASE] ...
>         Registered protocol IRC
>         2008/01/26 15:33:02 Starting MLGui 2.7.6 ... 
>         2008/01/26 15:33:02 MLGui is working in /home/bill/.mldonkey
>         Use encoding WINDOWS-1252
>         Use encoding ISO-8859-15
>         Use encoding IBM850
>         Use encoding ISO-8859-1
>         Use encoding UCS-2
>         2008/01/26 15:33:03 [DNS] Resolving [case] ...
>         Exception Not_found in gethostbyname
>         Exception Failure("inet_addr_of_string") in inet_addr_of_string
>         
>         mlgui was unable to find the IP address of the host [case]
>         
>         Please, edit the $HOME/.mldonkey/mlgui.ini, and change the
>         'hostname' option
>         to the correct IP address of the host running mldonkey.
>         Fatal error: exception Not_found "
> 
> My localhost name is CASE (the name of my computer).  I believe it is
> set up correctly; in every other program that asks for my hostname
> substituting CASE works.
> 
> 
Looking at the error message, it looks like mldonkey is looking for 
case, not CASE. It is unusual to see an uppercase host name.

Mikkel
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