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From: Mark Bentley <bentlema@cs.umn.edu>
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Subject: SERVER_NAME not being resolved
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>Number:         207
>Category:       os-irix
>Synopsis:       SERVER_NAME not being resolved
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 27 11:10:01 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sat Mar 22 15:09:59 PST 1997
>Originator:     bentlema@cs.umn.edu
>Organization:
>Release:        1.2b7
>Environment:
IRIX 6.2, gcc
>Description:

The SERVER_NAME environment variable isn't being fully expanded to the complete
host.domain name format.  I.e. if I connect to http://ftp/cgi-bin/ident.cgi the 
SERVER_NAME variable gets set to only "ftp", when it should be resolved to 
"ftp.cs.umn.edu"

This problem doesn't occur on our IRIX 5.3 apache server.
>How-To-Repeat:
To demonstrate this problem, DNS needs to be configured locally such that
ftp and ftp.cs resolve to ftp.cs.umn.edu.  For example, our client /etc/resolv.conf
looks like this:
domain cs.umn.edu
nameserver 128.101.248.7
nameserver 128.101.248.58
nameserver 128.101.101.101
search cs.umn.edu umn.edu

>Fix:
Explicitly do a DNS resolution, and set SERVER_NAME to it?  (Should  be quick
as long as /etc/hosts has entries too.%2
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: dgaudet
State-Changed-When: Sat Mar 22 15:09:59 PST 1997
State-Changed-Why:
User error, part of the whole virtual host confusion situation.
>Unformatted: