[hobbit] Hobbit bbtest-net crashing

[shea_greg at emc.com]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Henrik "Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
>Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:06 AM
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit bbtest-net crashing
>
>In <A3D12FAD74FC8B46991703F40C182BABA20D5B4F at permls102.wde.woodside.com.au> "Everett, Vernon"
> <Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> writes:
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>>Below are our 5 most recent cores.
>>And the corresponding entry in the bb-network.log file where available. (No=
>>t all generate the entry in the log file)
>
>It seems the problems occur in the C-ARES library which is used for
>hostname lookups (via DNS).
>
>Hobbit 4.2.0 uses version 1.2.1 of C-ARES; the current version is 1.5.3.
>Unfortunately there's been a small change of the C-ARES API, so we cannot
>just drop version 1.5.3 of the library into Hobbit 4.2.0. But it would
>be nice to know if the problem is still there in the latest version.
>
>If you want to try that, you can grab version 1.4.0 from 
>http://c-ares.haxx.se/c-ares-1.4.0.tar.gz and then change Hobbit's
>build/Makefile.rules: The "ARESVER" setting should be "1.4.0".
>Then "make clean; rm -rf bbnet/c-ares/* bbnet/libcares.*; make"
>and copy bbnet/bbtest-net to ~hobbit/server/bin/
>
>If you want to try out the 1.5.3 version, drop me a mail and I'll
>send you the patches needed for this to compile with Hobbit 4.2.0.

I've been using version 1.3.2 for over a year now without any problems.

Greg