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To: Brian Eldridge <beldri@runesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] libpq problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:28:14 -0600
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:50:34 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Brian Eldridge <beldri@runesoft.com> writes:
> [on a Win 95 box] Whenever I try to connect to my Linux box, I get an
> "unknown host" error from libpq.  If I use the psql.exe that came with
> the libs, it works fine.

It kinda sounds like something is wrong with DNS lookup --- not on your
box as a whole, but just in your program.  Perhaps you are linking
against a broken resolver library, or some such?  Anyway, try putting
some debug printouts around the call to gethostbyname() in fe-connect.c;
I assume that must be the subroutine that's failing.  Find out what it's
being passed and what it's returning.

			regards, tom lane