From: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: virtual hostname support for sm-notify on SuSE
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:21:59 -0800
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Hi Olaf 
I asked for this fix a couple of years ago, here is the fix for this 
problem.
Marc.

 
--- sm-notify.c.orig             2006-01-27 16:58:47.913561080 -0800
+++ sm-notify.c          2006-01-27 16:59:11.855921288 -0800
@@ -183,12 +183,16 @@ notify(void)
                 sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
 
                 /* Bind source IP if provided on command line */
-                if (opt_srcaddr
-                 && inet_aton(opt_srcaddr, &sin.sin_addr) == 0) {
-                                fprintf(stderr,
-                                                "Not a valid IP address: 
\"%s\"\n",
-                                                opt_srcaddr);
-                                exit(1);
+                if (opt_srcaddr) {
+                                struct hostent *hp = 
gethostbyname(opt_srcaddr);
+                                if (hp)
+                                                sin.sin_addr = *(struct 
in_addr *)hp->h_addr;
+                                else {
+                                                fprintf(stderr,
+                                                                "Not a 
valid IP address: \"%s\"\n",
+ opt_srcaddr);
+                                                exit(1);
+                                }
                 }
 
                 /* Use source port if provided on the command line,

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nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 01/03/2006 10:02:44 PM:

> Hi,
>      I have noticed that
>      sm-notify -v <virtual ip> works 
>      while sm-notify -v <virtual name> does not work.
>      Virtual name may be required if nfs server fails 
>      over across subnets.
> 
> 
> thanks,
>  kiran

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