nntpd is broken under NetBSD (ioctl (SIOCGIFCONF))

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#15 nntpd is broken under NetBSD (ioctl (SIOCGIFCONF))

Milestone: 1.11

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: Matthias Andree

Labels: nntpd ("leafnode") (4)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2009-03-23

Created: 2009-03-21

Creator: Aleksey Cheusov

Private: No

leafnode uses ioctl (SIOCGIFCONF) in a way incompatible with NetBSD-5.

See details here
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/03/21/msg001898.html

NetBSD developers recomend to use getifaddrs(3) API available in NetBSD and FreeBSD for many years.
getifaddrs(3) is also available under OpenBSD.

Discussion

Matthias Andree - 2009-03-23

Hi Aleksey,

thanks for the research and the solution. I've gone for the solution that Roy Marples (of dhcpcd fame) has suggested, rather than the system-specific getifaddrs(), since the latter isn't available on Solaris or Linux.

While I was at it, I also added support to obtain netmasks for IP aliases on BSD. This is to appear in leafnode 1.11.7.

Thanks for the report.

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Matthias Andree - 2009-03-23

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status: open --> closed-fixed
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