[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX XDM support A diff - u patch for nxnode

[chris at ccburton.com]

freenx-knx-bounces at kde.org wrote on 28/11/2011 22:03:04:

> Just another note on your patch:
> 
> I noticed the following line which is supposed to retrieve the IP
> address of a given hostname:
> 
> XDM_HOST_ADDRESS=$(dig +short +search $XDM_HOST|egrep
> "^([0-9]{1,3}[.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}$"|tr "\n" " "|cut -d " " -f1)
> 
> I'd suggest to use the following perl 1-liner instead:
> 
> XDM_HOST_ADDRESS=
> $(perl -e 'use Socket;@a=gethostbyname shift;print inet_ntoa @a[4];'
> $XDM_HOST)
> 
> Advantage: It also resolves names from /etc/hosts (dig, nslookup and
> host all use DNS only). Furthermore, dig, nslookup or host might not be
> available on any system while perl - at least the core - certainly is.
> (e.g: On my Fedora, dig belongs to the bind-utils package)

Oh yes, you're right !!

Resolving using "gethostbyname" is of course how nxagent behaves.

I forget about this because I never use /etc/hosts

I'll send an update . . .

> 
> Cheers
>  -Fritz
> 
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