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Conference lassie::ucx

Title:DEC TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
Notice:Note 2-SSB Kits, 3-FT Kits, 4-Patch Info, 7-QAR System
Moderator:ucxaxp.ucx.lkg.dec.com::TIBBERT
Created:Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5568
Total number of notes:21492

5407.0. "NTP gethostbyname errno 65535" by CSC32::H_SO (Reboot twice 'n call me in the mornin') Thu Apr 03 1997 18:28

    I've got a customer running UCX 4.1 (just updated from 3.3) 
    on VAX VMS 6.1.
    
    UCX$NTPD.LOG contains recurring error message:
    * gethostbyname(ntp server name here) error, errno 65535
    but the NTPD process contiues to run fine.
    
    Any idea what this error is?
    
    Thanks.
    
    Jay
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5407.1Ah, errnoLADDIE::TIBBERTLee Tibbert, DTN 226-6115Fri Apr 11 1997 03:3523
 >   * gethostbyname(ntp server name here) error, errno 65535

Jay,

	You might want to check out how DEC C handles errno.
65535 looks suspiciously, to me, like the vms specific errno
code which says 'look in vaxc$errno for the VMS condition code
for the real error".  I try my best to stay away from errno,
so I'm not sure, but I think that decc kept vaxc$errno as a 
name instead of changing it to decc$errno.  But then again,
I could be wrong/confused.

	Since NTP appears to tell you nothing about vaxc$errno/
decc$errno, the message means "Nah, Nah, your hosed and we are
not going to tell you how".

	Now, you could file an IPMT on NTP and there is a chance
that the people who wrote this code would get the feedback....
(Clue: it was not written in LKG)

I hope this helps,

Lee
5407.2CSC32::H_SOReboot twice 'n call me in the mornin'Mon Apr 14 1997 18:0110
    Hi Lee.
    
    Thanks for the reply.  
    RE IPMT: 
    	I think I might just do that.
    RE "Nah, Nah, your hosed and we are not going to tell you how".
    	So 65535 == "Hah-hah" as in Nelson from The Simpsons, eh?
    	8*)
                                                    
    Jay