Looking at the problem closer, I am actually also experiencing this
problem myself today (which kind of makes sense since all my users are
now mailing me).
It seems that Yahoo (finance.yahoo.com) now returns 24 IP addresses and
that the Palm OS is not able to cope with this. At first the error was
netErrTimeout, I then increased the timeout value in NetLibGetHostByName
and now the error is netErrDNSTimeout.
Can any Palm engineer please confirm that this could be a problem on the
Palm OS ?? Are there any workarounds (apart from using IP addresses)?
Many thanks
Chris
Christian Vandendorpe wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using gethostbyname() in my network code for a long time with
> the fix for hostnames that return more than 4 addresses. This has worked
> fine. Every once in a while a user comes back to me saying that they got
> a "gethostbyname error" (an error message I output in case gethostbyname
> returns NULL). I usually tell them that this must be a problem with
> their DNS configuration in their network settings.
>
> However today I got 5 emails from users saying that gethostbyname
> failed. On my 2 Palms and in POSE it works fine. What can make
> gethostbyname() to fail ??? The same users usually claim that their
> other network apps (email, web browser) work fine.
>
> Any clues? anyone's got a reliable function to connect to a net address?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Chris
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