Bug#272380: [Pkg-firebird-general] Bug#272380: firebird2-super-server and hosts file(s)

[Damyan Ivanov]

I wrote:
>> I've got your symptoms when I've changed the primary host name in /etc/hosts > from
>> 
>> 127.0.0.1	localhost localhost.localdomain
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> 127.0.0.1	debian.example.org localhost localhost.localdomain
>> 
>> Addind debian.example.org to /etc/hosts.equiv solved the problem.
> 
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Uhm, incidentally that's no requirements about contents of /etc/hosts,
> but for a few old-days conventions. I would skip the hosts.equiv check
> with a suitable patch. It is basically a non-sense currently as all 
> the rcommands related things...

I think I wasn't quite clear in my mail. Sorry.

Changing /etc/hosts as shown above causes the problem to trigger. To fix the
problem, the primary host name (the first on the 127.0.0.1 line, I beleive)
must be put in /etc/hosts.equiv

Yes, I agree this is stupid, but this is the current state of firebird 1.5.2. I
don't think this is fixed in 1.5.3. Maybe 2.0, but still not sure.

<guess>
I suspect that fbserver process accepts control commands via its listening tcp
socket and needs some form of authentication of these control connections.
Probably it uses /etc/hosts.equiv for this, instead of using hard value of
127.0.0.1
</guess>

As a workaround of the real issue, I can put some checks in
/etc/init.d/firebird2 to ensure that the primary hostname is in
/etc/hosts.equiv. It fould be better if fbserver responds to SIGxxx, but this
is not the case.

Thoughts?


dam
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