strange gethostsbyname error...

[Jerry Feldman]

That's what log files are for. FWIW, it's a good ideal to always report as 
much relevant info on failures, especially on servers where you can't take 
it down or where the failure occurs after a long time. 

Also, bracketing the call by a sethostent() and endhostent() may also solve 
the problem. 
On 18 Jun 2002 at 13:51, Frank Ramsay wrote:

> the hosts line reads
> hosts:  file nisplus dns
> 
> I'm putting some code it in check h_error but this problem occures ovenight 
> so it's hard to test since they need the server running durring the day.

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