Re: HTTPAPI returns a "Host name look up failed"

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rich,

Create a debug log (like you did before) and look at what is being 
received from the web service -- the details will be in that debug file.



Rich Kitterman wrote:
>    Hi Scott,
>    > Just in case you didn't understand this: Your messages are going to
>    a
>    > public mailing list. All participants on the mailing list can read
>    > them. I'm able to read your response to Michael Ryan, you don't have
>    to
>    > repeat it.
>    Thanks for the clarification.  I understand that the correspondence
>    gets bounced to all on the public mailing list.  I just didn't know if
>    you personally were following every piece, so as a courtesy I repeated
>    it.
>    > Here's why I would not have suspected that: You told me that a PING
>    > worked. PING uses the same DNS resolver (configured with CFGTCP 12)
>    > that HTTPAPI. Why did it work for PING and not for HTTPAPI?
>    I was pinging with the same IP address I gave GEOIP as a parm.  I
>    think my confusion with the error message is in understanding what
>    host name was actually being looked up.  Did the error have reference
>    to the target IP address I was trying to get GEOIP to return a country
>    name for, or was it referring to something else?  I suspect the
>    latter.
> 
>    > Hard to say. You really haven't provided any information other than
>    > "something didn't work". Check the XML that was returned from the
>    web
>    > service and see if it contains the country name. If it was, then the
>    > problem is in the way your interfacing to the XML parser.
>    I agree.  The problem is that I'm ignorant enough that I'm not sure
>    where (which HTTPAPI module or procedure) to look for the XML string
>    coming back from the web service.  If you can point me in the right
>    direction, I'd be grateful.  What I did determine is that when I go to
>    [1]http://www.webservicex.net/geoipservice.asmx?op=GetGeoIP and test
>    the same IP address I pass to GEOIP, the XML I get back is:
> 
>    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>    - <GeoIP xmlns:xsd="[2]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
>    xmlns:xsi="[3]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>    xmlns="[4]http://www.webservicex.net";>
>      <ReturnCode>1</ReturnCode>
>      <IP>209.131.36.158</IP>
>      <ReturnCodeDetails>Record Found</ReturnCodeDetails>
>      <CountryName>UNITED STATES</CountryName>
>      <CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
>      </GeoIP>
> 
>    I appreciate your patience, as you can see I'm completely a novice
>    with this.
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