#12399: Static network address configuration fails
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Reporter: kallisti5 | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: R1/beta1
Component: Network & Internet/Stack | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by ambroff):
Looks like this behavior was introduced in a change to BNetworkAddress for
#12388. Looks like there was [https://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-commits
/haiku-hrev50368-srckitsnetworklibnetapi-headersosnet,8 some disagreement]
about whether or not this was a desirable change, and I'm inclined to
agree.
For the Network app in particular, fixing this either requires short
circuiting the hostname lookup in BNetworkAddress, or, the option that i
prefer, eliminate it entirely.
I'm new to Haiku as of like two days ago so I'm still reading through the
source code, but I don't think it would be unreasonable to add an
additional abstraction that can be used by whatever currently requires
BNetworkAddress::fHostName. I have a lot of code to read before I really
understand what's going on.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12399#comment:3>
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