On Thursday 29 January 2009, Benjamin Lewis wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Benjamin Lewis wrote:
>>> I think it would be a good idea to pick some other name to test with
>>> since the .name TLD has come into existence.  host.name and a.host.name
>>> both resolve.  There's no reason that not.a.host.name couldn't resolve
>>> someday.
>>
>> Now that makes sense.  As Jean-Louis would say, patches to configure.in
>> welcome. :-)
>
>I submitted a patch to config/amanda/dumpers.m4 to change
>not.a.host.name to nosuchhost.amanda.org in the configure script.  The
>Request ID is 2545424.  The patch was developed against the
>amanda-2.6.2alpha-20090128 source code.
>
Thanks Ben.  In the case of a user using opendns for his dns servers, it won't 
do any good, they are miss-configured.  Trouble ticket opened yesterday, but 
I've not heard back from them.  In the meantime I'm back to using verizons 
dns servers with their 95% uptime.

>The patch is completely untested by me because I can't get the autogen
>script to run (probably GLIB related) on my workstation and I don't have
>time to fool with that at the moment.
>
>I should note that there's also a bug in the autogen script itself:
>
>die() {
>    echo x"${@}" | sed s/^x//
>    exit 1
>}
>
>Maybe that works on Linux where /bin/sh and /bin/bash are identical but
>on Solaris you'll need something like
>
>die() {
>    echo x"${@}" | sed 's/^x//'
>    exit 1
>}

I am not that much of a shell guru, but shouldn't the latter also work with 
bash/sh?

>Thanks,
>
>-Ben



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