[Mediawiki-l] Bug in 1.6.3?

[Brion Vibber]

Malcolm Ross Kinsella Ryan wrote:
> I just installed MediaWiki 1.6.3. It all seems to have gone okay, with 
> the exception of an error message at the top of the browser window:
> 
>   Warning:  socket_sendto() Host lookup failed [-10001]: Unknown host in
>   wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1504
> 
> I checked out the offending line, and it appears to be trying to open a
> socket to a machine called "webster" to do some kinds of statistics logging.
> I commented the line out and everything seems to work just fine.

Looks like Domas accidentally committed a live debugging hack while fixing
something else. I've removed it on trunk and REL1_6 branch.

If you're affected, 'svn up' if you checked out the source from Subversion or
apply this patch:

http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_6/phase3/includes/GlobalFunctions.php?r1=13501&r2=13594&view=patch

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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