Nc6 for FreeBSD 4.10

[Max Laier]

Christian,

On Saturday 08 January 2005 19:11, Christian Vogt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.  For a
> project on Mobile IPv6, I need a simple tool with which data can be
> transmitted over TCP.  The problem is: I depend on outdated FreeBSD 4.10.
>
> I guess that Nc6 would give me everything I need.  However, when I type
>
>     # cd /usr/ports/net/nc6/
>     # make
>
> on my FreeBSD 4.10 system, I get an error message:
>
> ++++++++++
> Making all in src
> source='circ_buf.c' object='circ_buf.o' libtool=no
> depfile='.deps/circ_buf.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/circ_buf.TPo'  depmode=gcc
> /bin/sh ../config/depcomp  cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I../contrib
> -I../intl -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"  -I/usr/local/include
> -O -pipe    -pipe -W -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -finline-functions -O -pipe -c `test -f
> 'circ_buf.c' || echo './'`circ_buf.c
> source='filter.c' object='filter.o' libtool=no
> depfile='.deps/filter.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/filter.TPo'  depmode=gcc
> /bin/sh ../config/depcomp  cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I../contrib
> -I../intl -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"  -I/usr/local/include
> -O -pipe    -pipe -W -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -finline-functions -O -pipe -c `test -f
> 'filter.c' || echo './'`filter.c
> filter.c:42: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> filter.c: In function `is_allowed':
> filter.c:208: `EAI_NODATA' undeclared (first use in this function)
> filter.c:208: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> filter.c:208: for each function it appears in.)
> filter.c:209: `EAI_ADDRFAMILY' undeclared (first use in this function)
> *** Error code 1

Please cvsup your ports tree, there is a patch to solve this problem for quite 
some time. (files/patch-ac)

> Stop in /usr/ports/net/nc6/work/nc6-0.5/src.
> *** Error code 1
> ++++++++++
>
> The two identifiers EAI_NODATA and EAI_ADDRFAMILY appear only one time
> in the entire Nc6 code, namely, in a swich statement in file filter.c.
> I replaced the identifiers by their values (7 and 1, respectively), and,
> guess what, Nc6 compiled successfully.

This is not the right way to fix this problem, in my opinion.

> However, when I use the program for a TCP connection, it aborts with an
> error:
>
>     # /usr/local/bin/nc6 1000::1 2000
>     nc6: forward host lookup failed for remote endpoint 1000::1:
>     Non-recoverable failure in name resolution
>
> At this time, Nc6 is running in listen mode on node 1000::1. (I called
> /usr/local/bin/nc6 -l -p 2000 -s 1000::1 on the remote machine.) The
> funny thing is that I am providing an IPv6 address above, but Nc6 still
> seems to try doing name resolution.  This does not change when I use the
> "-n" option.

Not sure where this is coming from, but your analysis seems to be correct.  
Did you try to use "-6"?

> I suppose that the problem is due to the software in the Ports archive
> being incompatible with FreeBSD 4.10.  Therefore, I wonder if you have
> an older version of Nc6 that I could use.  As far as the additional
> software that Nc6 requires goes, I have the following versions on the
> FreeBSD 4.10 system:
>
>     expat-1.95.6_1
>     gettext-0.12.1
>     libiconv-1.9.1_1
>
> I would be so greatful if you could help me out!

Try the cvsup, this might already fix your problem.  If not, ping me back.  
BTW, I am a graduate student at University of Karlsruhe.

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