[Users] SER and OpenBSD/amd64 3.8

[Federico Giannici]

Federico Giannici wrote:
> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> 
>> Hi Federico,
>>
>> that's strange, but I will say it has nothing to do with openser, 
>> since it uses for DNS sys calls offered by the system libs.....
>> any updates?
> 
> 
> Yes, I traced the problem to the gethostbyname() function.
> It seems that it returns NULL the SECOND time it's called by the same 
> process!
> 
> I still don't know why...
> 
> It's strage that it happened just after I upgraded to 3.8, but it's 
> strange that nobody else of OpenBSD experienced it, too!

Got it!
The problem was related to the fact that I run OpenSER chrooted.
I simply copied  "/etc/resolv.conf" to the chrootted path and the 
problem disappeared.

So something changed beetween OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8 in the way 
"/etc/resolv.conf" is accessed...


Bye.


>> Federico Giannici wrote:
>>
>>> Yesterday I upgraded the version of the operating system of our sip 
>>> server from OpenBSD amd64 3.7 to 3.8.
>>>
>>> Now I noticed that domain name lookups seems to don't work anymore 
>>> and the INVITES are replyed with 478.
>>>
>>> Here is an example of the logs:
>>>
>>> Dec  5 13:11:03 eowyn OpenSER[15740]: ERROR: mk_proxy: could not 
>>> resolve hostname: "voip.eutelia.it"
>>> Dec  5 13:11:03 eowyn OpenSER[15740]: ERROR: uri2proxy: bad host name 
>>> in URI <sip:800900800 at voip.eutelia.it:5060;user=phone>
>>> Dec  5 13:11:03 eowyn OpenSER[15740]: ERROR:tm:t_forward_nonack: 
>>> failure to add branches
>>>
>>> Obviously "voip.eutelia.it" is resolved by dig on the same machine.
>>>
>>> Anybody had the same problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
ì

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