Ubuntu
tsocks package

hostnames not accepted in tsocks.conf

Bug #1170 reported by Stevie Beth Mhaol
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
tsocks (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

If i set the following line in the /etc/tsocks.conf:
    server = staff-proxy.ul.ie
attempting to use tsocks give me an error, telling me that the server 'staff-proxy.ul.ie' is invalid

If i set the following line in the /etc/tsocks.conf:
    server = staff-proxy.ul.ie
attempting to use tsocks give me an error, telling me that the server 'staff-proxy.ul.ie' is invalid. Using an ip works fine.

I had a look at the source package, removing the '--enable-hostname' line from the configure section of the debian/rules file fixes the problem. I've remade the package locally and it accepts hostnames fine now.

So, it looks like a ./configure bug of some kind.

See original description
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in tsocks:
assignee: nobody → motu
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Barry deFreese (bddebian) wrote :

Yes, configure is run with --enable-hostnames which doesn't even appear to be valid so it may be somehow setting --disable-hostnames?. Thanks for the report.

Changed in tsocks:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Barry deFreese (bddebian) wrote :

Fixed in Dapper. Thank you.

Changed in tsocks:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Stevie Beth Mhaol (kormat) wrote :

Hmm. Has that upload gone through? Checking the source packages for dapper and edgy both show that --enable-hostname is still supplied in debian/rules (also packages.ubuntu.com/tsocks shows that it's the same package unmodified that has been used since warty), and the dapper package still gives the same error. I had a quick look at the supplied configure script btw, it definetely has inbuilt support for both '--enable-hostnames' and '--disable-hostnames', i'm not sure why it's screwing up though.

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