Re: What's wrong with this system's configuration?

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 >>  >> The admin asked me what command I use in order to get the name 'localhost.testdrive.hp.com'. How does MP2 get this?
 >>  >
 >>  >Something like the following:
 >>  >
 >>  >use Socket;
 >>  >my $localhost_addr = pack('C4', 127, 0, 0, 1);
 >>  >my $name = gethostbyaddr($localhost_addr, Socket::AF_INET()) || 'localhost';
 >>  >my $iaddr = (gethostbyname($name))[-1];
 >>  >unless (defined $iaddr) {
 >>  >         die "Can't resolve host: '$name' (check /etc/hosts)";
 >>  >}
 >>  >$remote_addr ||= Socket::inet_ntoa($iaddr);
 >>  >print $remote_addr;
 >>  >
 >>  >prints 127.0.0.1 on my machine.
 >>  >
 >>  >--
 >> 
 >> They ask me this: :)
 >> 
 >> When I show this to one of the engineers here we are confused
 >> as to what information or what you are trying to do with these
 >> commands. Can you please explain what you are trying to do?
 >
 >It tries to resolve 127.0.0.1.

Seems like the admin is not going to help me.
Anyway, I compiled perl 5.8.6 on two other platforms in the testdrive program and when I try to compile mp2 I get the same error (on these two platforms I didn't get the error with the native perl distribution.) I don't know if this is a problem with perl or the platforms' configurations. Is this check vital for mod_perl to operate? Why mod_perl should resolve 127.0.0.1? Can I skip this check in order to try to test on these platforms and what to do to skip it?

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