Hello Alex,

I've upgraded a server 2 years ago, from i386 to x86_64 and *yes*, I did have some trouble with gethostbyname(); but I fixed it, I think by tinkering with config.h.

It's been a long time since then but if you want, I can open up my archives and explain what I did to make it work on x86_64 in detail.

@Dexter

Alex wrote:

Hi,

Can you please confirm whether there are any issues with your software under FreeBSD/amd64? I am having issues with hostname lookups of connecting clients constantly failing.

There is an instance of bind running on the machine thats running the ircd. nslookup requests are working fine on the machine. I have tried completely disabling the firewall on the machine incase the firewall (pf) was dropping packets.. This didnt help.

I dont recall having the problem on FreeBSD/i386, so am curious whether this is something thats a bug specific to 64 bit builds.

I am running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE/amd64 on a Q6600 CPU.

If you require further information, please let me know.