Re: [MacPerl] network problems

[David Neumann <dneumann@clark.net>]

Yes, I am sending this with Eudora, and Netscape works OK. Network access outside of MacPerl
is OK.
I started to have a problem with Anarchie when I switched to OS8 and OT/PPP. Anarchie now says
"Anarchie failed to initialize MacTCP". This is version 2.01 of Anarchie. Should it work with OT/PPP?

The Macperl calls to getprotobyname() and getservbyname() seem to work OK, but the DNS lookup
seems to fail. Any ideas why PPP in general is OK, but failing in MacPerl?

At 8:25 AM -0500 on 12/28/97, Chris Nandor wrote:


> That code "works" for me.  That is, I get a defined, packed ip address.  I
> am using all the same software you are and the same versions.
> 
> Can you make a connection with any other software (Netscape, Eudora,
> Anarchie, etc.)?
> 
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> Chris Nandor               pudge@pobox.com           http://pudge.net/
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> 
> 
> At 01.08 12/28/97, David Neumann wrote:
> >use Net::Ping;
> >use Socket;
> >
> >$p = Net::Ping->new("tcp", 15);
> >$proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
> >print "proto: $proto\n";
> >$port = getservbyname('echo', 'tcp');
> >print "echo port: $port\n";
> >$host = "mail.clark.net";
> >$ip = inet_aton($host);
> >if (defined($ip)) {
> >        print "ip: $ip\n";
> >} else {
> >        print "ip is undefined for $host\n";
> >}
> >
> >I get the following results:
> >
> >proto: 6
> >echo port: 7
> >ip is undefined for mail.clark.net
> >
> >All addresses are undefined, and this is where the ping code seems to fail
> >when called.
> >This is the Ping.pm that was modified for MacPerl.
> >
> >I am using the following versions:
> >MacPerl 5.1.5r4
> >MacOS 8.0
> >OT 1.2
> >TCP/IP 1.2
> >PPP 1.0.1
> >
> >Should this combination of Perl code and system software work?
> >Other network code also fails, and it doesn't seem to matter if my PPP
> >connection is already
> >established or not.




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