WWW Form Bug Report: "mod_proxy misbehavior" on Solaris 2.x (fwd)

[Cliff Skolnick <cl...@organic.com>]

Interesting note about DNS behavio (paragraph 2)

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Cliff Skolnick                                      cliff@organic.com

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Date: Wed Jun 12 19:32:11 1996
From: peb@cs.bsu.edu
To: cliff@organic.com
Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "mod_proxy misbehavior" on Solaris 2.x

Submitter: peb@cs.bsu.edu
Operating system: Solaris 2.x, version: 2.5
Version of Apache Used: 1.1b3
Extra Modules used: mod_proxy
URL exhibiting problem: 

Symptoms:
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mod_proxy host2addr() used inet_xxxx(host,addr) function
I had never seen and neither had my linker.
I replaced it with addr->s_addr = inet_addr(host)
and now it compiles and links for me.

Also, the logic in host2addr() looks like it
will not believe it has a DNS name if it sees
a digit anywhere in the string, but I could be
confused.  I always write code that assumes
it has a DNS name and falls back to the dotted
decimal interpretation only if the gethostbyname()
fails.  My approach may waste a lot of time
on making a wrong first guess, but will seldom
be wrong in a proxied URL.
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Backtrace:
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