Re: Getting (Bad protocol 'tcp') errors under Solaris

Gisle Aas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.lwp
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
"Michael J. Freeman" <[email protected]> writes:

> 500 Can't connect to rt.innocent.com:443 (Bad protocol 'tcp')

This means that getprotobyname("tcp") fails.  On many Unix systems
this is looked up from /etc/protcols.  Try:

  $ perl -le 'print scalar(getprotobyname("tcp"))'

This ought to print 6 on most systems.  If it doesn't try to run it
under truss to figure out what is happening.

--Gisle
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