From 9a4bc49fee7666427c35db287948d5acc47990e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Tridgell Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:09:36 +0000 Subject: r8579: recognise the name 'localhost' as 127.0.0.1. This solves a problem with some hosts that are missing localhost from /etc/hosts (This used to be commit f9866258e099001390aa61dcc12055fe1374db60) --- source4/lib/util.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'source4/lib') diff --git a/source4/lib/util.c b/source4/lib/util.c index 308d1b6f45..03ae86422f 100644 --- a/source4/lib/util.c +++ b/source4/lib/util.c @@ -339,6 +339,11 @@ uint32_t interpret_addr(const char *str) if (strcmp(str,"255.255.255.255") == 0) { return 0xFFFFFFFF; } + /* recognise 'localhost' as a special name. This fixes problems with + some hosts that don't have localhost in /etc/hosts */ + if (strcmp(str,"localhost") == 0) { + str = "127.0.0.1"; + } /* if it's in the form of an IP address then get the lib to interpret it */ if (is_ipaddress(str)) { -- cgit