There was a bug in realhostname_sa() in lib/libutil and sometime daemon using it dies, such as telnetd. I think following patch will fix it, but now checking make world before actually committing it. If anyone experienced same problem, please try following patch. Sorry for your troubles. Yoshinobu Inoue Index: realhostname.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libutil/realhostname.c,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4 realhostname.c --- realhostname.c 2000/01/25 14:51:57 1.4 +++ realhostname.c 2000/01/27 11:37:08 @@ -122,8 +122,10 @@ port = ((struct sockinet *)addr)->si_port; ((struct sockinet *)addr)->si_port = 0; if (!memcmp(sa, addr, sa->sa_len)) { - strncpy(host, res->ai_canonname, - hsize); + if (res->ai_canonname != 0) + strncpy(host, + res->ai_canonname, + hsize); result = HOSTNAME_FOUND; ((struct sockinet *)addr)->si_port = port; @@ -146,8 +148,10 @@ if (IN6_IS_ADDR_V4MAPPED(in6) && !memcmp(&in6->s6_addr[12], in, sizeof(*in))) { - strncpy(host, res->ai_canonname, - hsize); + if (res->ai_canonname != 0) + strncpy(host, + res->ai_canonname, + hsize); result = HOSTNAME_FOUND; break; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message