On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Alan DeKok
<aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:
Peter Lambrechtsen wrote:
> It seems around like 734 in pam_radius_auth.c:
>
> if ((hp = gethostbyname(hostname)) == (struct hostent *) NULL) {
> ipaddr = 0x00000000; /* no client IP address */
> } else {
> ipaddr = ntohl(*(UINT4 *) hp->h_addr); /* use the first one
> available */
> }
>
> That gethostbyname returns an h_addr IP address of "0.0.0.1" on our
> solaris box when running in 64Bit, but not in 32Bit. The box has IPV6
> fully disabled so we are not sure why it's doing that.
Ah... "0.0.0.1" is "::1" in IPv6.
OK, the module *should* check the "h_addrtype" field. It's not doing
that right now.
> Otherwise we many to using gethostbyname_r rather than gethostbyname and
> get it working that way I'll submit a patch. And use the get_ipaddr
> function at line 242 only once rather than having two seprate places
> where gethostbyname is called to return an IP Address
OK, thanks.