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#183 closed defect (fixed)

Random "bind: Can't assign requested address" messages on OS X

Reported by: eric@… Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.2
Component: BitlBee Version: 1.1dev
Keywords: Cc:
IRC client+version: Client-independent Operating System: MacOS
OS version/distro:

Description

I get these "bind: Can't assign requested address" messages when I start bitlbee in daemon mode on OS X. I'm sure that there is no other process listening to this port (checked it with "lsof -i 4") and address. Bzero'ing the sockaddr struct in bitlbee.c before calling bind() fixes the problem:

--- bitlbee.c 2006-06-24 16:00:43.000000000 +0200 +++ bitlbee.c.bzero 2006-07-12 10:49:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@

log_error( "socket" ); return( -1 );

}

+ bzero((char *) &listen_addr, sizeof(listen_addr));

listen_addr.sin_family = AF_INET; listen_addr.sin_port = htons( global.conf->port ); listen_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr( global.conf->iface );

Attachments (2)

bitlbee.c.bzero.patch (378 bytes) - added by anonymous at 2006-07-12T08:58:54Z.
bitlbee.memset.v2.patch (708 bytes) - added by bitlbee@… at 2007-03-01T21:49:37Z.

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Change History (7)

Changed at 2006-07-12T08:58:54Z by anonymous

Attachment: bitlbee.c.bzero.patch added

comment:1 Changed at 2006-07-12T10:54:09Z by wilmer

Thanks for the fix. Can you verify if the current development version also fixes the problem? If you got the time you can get a snapshot using bzr from http://code.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/. (Or use /hgweb to generate a tarball) I worked a lot on the daemon code and also added a ForkDaemon mode (which spawns a separate process for every client, which should be a lot more stable). The listening code should be much better there.

comment:2 Changed at 2006-10-22T13:44:44Z by wilmer

Milestone: 1.0.3

comment:3 Changed at 2007-02-23T11:30:34Z by wilmer

Milestone: 1.1/1.2
Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened
Version: 1.0.31.1dev

Still seems to be broken. :-(

comment:4 Changed at 2007-03-01T21:48:40Z by bitlbee@…

This should have been fixed by my patch in http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/230. However, I failed by placing the memset in an if-block, but at least it works if you compile w/o ipv6-support :)

Sorry about the snag. Upping a new patch to the latest snapshot that sould remedy this in a couple of secs.

Changed at 2007-03-01T21:49:37Z by bitlbee@…

Attachment: bitlbee.memset.v2.patch added

comment:5 Changed at 2007-12-04T23:25:38Z by wilmer

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

I think Jelmer's getaddrinfo() change will have the same effect.

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