Incomplete information in syslog error message for webserver binding

[friggstadk@…]

Observed with PowerDNS 2.9.20, binary installed from RPM to Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3.0:

When attempting to start pdns, pdns_server kept exiting (code 1) with the following entries in the syslog:

Fatal error in webserver: binding to port 8081: Cannot assign requested address

It turned out that I had a bad IP address entered for the webserver-address variable in pdns.conf, but that was not obvious from the error message. A slight change to the error message to include the IP and port would prove much more helpful - for example (fake IP address):

Fatal error in webserver: binding to 123.231.132.213:8081: Cannot assign requested address

The success message for the webserver does display the IP address in the syslog:

Launched webserver on 123.231.132.213:8081

Adding the IP address to the error message would be consistent with the success message, and would be helpful in debugging configuration problems.

Thanks for considering this issue.

[ahu]

Looks worthwhile, but as we are rather busy, perhaps you could write the patch?

You can probably just copy paste around in ws.cc, part of the PowerDNS distribution.

Good luck!

[ahu]

fixed in 991