[Bug 375459] [NEW] Can't resolve host

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:11:07 -0000, arky wrote:

> Public bug reported:
> Binary package hint: bti

Hi,

I'm the maintainer of bti in Debian.
 
> Doesn't post , looks like a network error but the connection is ok.

Thanks for the detailed bug report!
 
> $ bti --debug 
[..]
> bti: main: host = 2
[..]
> * getaddrinfo(3) failed for tweeter:80
> * Couldn't resolve host 'tweeter'

> $ cat .bti
[..]
> host=tweeter
[..]

You've set "host=tweeter" in your .bti file.

bti supports three kind of hosts: [0]
for twitter.com: "twitter"
for identi.ca: "identica"
for a custom laconi.ca instance: the hostname you want (since version 22)

Since you are neither using "twitter" nor "identica" bti assumes that
you want to use a host called 'tweeter' [1] and tries to connect to
that host (with curl); that fails in your case because the hostname
'tweeter' doesn't resolve on your machine.

I'm not sure what you want to do:
* If you want to use twitter, put 'twitter' instead of 'tweeter' in
  your .bti file.
* If you want to use some service called tweeter either put the whole
  hostname into .bti or make sure in some other way that your machine
  can resolve 'tweeter' (/etc/hosts or some DNS stuff) -- and check
  with `host tweeter' that the name resolution actually works.


In any case the issue of your machine not being able to resolve a
hostname called 'tweeter' is not a bug in bti.


Cheers,
gregor


[0]
cf. `man bti', at least for the first two options

[1]
from your log: host = 2 

from bti.c:

enum host {
    HOST_TWITTER  = 0,
    HOST_IDENTICA = 1,
    HOST_CUSTOM   = 2
};
[..]
                session->host = HOST_CUSTOM;
[..]
            dbg("host = %d\n", session->host);

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