Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re: Hack for FreeBSD nbprgstr Was: Trouble with nbprgstr...
From: Typeline Webmaster (web@typeline.com)
Date: Fri Mar 13 1998 - 13:55:45 EST
Peter,
I thanked God for you and your response to this problem. When I came in
this
morning and got this message I was totally blown away. The odds of both
of us
running into the same problem at almost the same time are incredible!
Maybe I
should go an buy a lottery ticket!
Anyway, I applied your patch and the server comes up by itself without
relying
on any of the other routers. What I recommend for anyone else needing
this
is to do clean install *after* applying the patch. Since the patch is
applied
to a library module which is part of libatalk.a, the install will link
afpd, nbprgstr, papd, and whatever else is affected.
Just got the following thread from Julian Elischer:
Peter Hjelt wrote:
>
> Got a itchy problem with netatalk 1.4b2 straight out of the ports collection
> of FreeBSD 2.2.5, using the stock appletalk drivers from the 2.2.5 kernel.
without applying the patch pointed to in the 2.2.2 ERRATA.TXT
that is found on the ftp site..
I looked but can't find the file he's referring to.
Peter Hjelt wrote:
>
> >With the UAR router we did specify a separate zone, "MyZone". It seems
> >as though Netatalk needs this zone to complete an nbprgstr. I don't
> >understand why it fails to complete the registration process in the
> >netatalk.sh script when the default zone "*" is the target.
>
> Ah, got your message about nbprgstr problems about at the same time I posted
> my message titled "Odd nbprgstr problems with 1.4b2/FreeBSD 2.2.5" earlier
> today; we both seem to suffer from nbprgstr 1.4b2 not being able to register
> names on the default zone under FreeBSD.
>
> Here is what I came up with to fake it (note: this is a mere hack, not the
> solution .. it will, however, work until someone else on the list can explain
> to us what's actually going wrong and what the real fix is supposed to be).
>
> Apply this patch in /usr/ports/net/netatalk/work/netatalk-1.4b2/libatalk/nbp/
> and recompile/install ../../etc/afpd/afpd and ../../bin/nbp/nbprgstr
>
> --- nbp_rgstr.c Fri Mar 13 12:57:39 1998
> +++ nbp_rgstr.c Fri Mar 13 13:09:02 1998
> @@ -109,9 +109,13 @@
> if (( cc = select( s + 1, &readfd, 0, 0, &timeout )) < 0 ) {
> return( -1 );
> }
> + /*
> + * FreeBSD 2.2.5 nozone hack by MXV of EFnet (mxv@iterate.com)
> + * fake successful NBPOP on timeout .. definitely dirty
> + */
> if ( cc == 0 ) {
> - errno = ETIMEDOUT;
> - return( -1 );
> + close( s );
> + return( 0 );
> }
>
> namelen = sizeof( struct sockaddr_at );
>
> This leaves some odd side-effects when unregistering the names, but for
> regular server use it's doing it's job, letting the server register itself
> even as there are no routers/zones chattering on the network.
>
> Hint: you might want to copy the VAX-icon over the default globe one in
> afpd/icon.h before recompiling afpd .. will get you a cute BSD'ish devil on
> your desktops keeping our flag high =)
>
> // enjoy - MXV
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