bind(): Can't assign requested address

[Anatoly Vorobey]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:23:03PM -0800, Dave Roe wrote:
> Okay, this is just the man page, so I figured I could still proceed, 
> but I am unable to start memcached using "sudo /usr/local/bin/memcached 
> -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -m 64 -d". It fails with:
> 
> bind(): Can't assign requested address
> failed to listen

Please try this patch and tell me if it helps. I don't have an OS X
machine to test it with.

--- cvs/wcmtools/memcached/memcached.c  2004-09-13 16:25:42.000000000 
-0700
+++ src/memcached/memcached.c   2004-11-22 17:45:57.000000000 -0800
@@ -1143,6 +1143,7 @@
     setsockopt(sfd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, &flags, sizeof(flags));
 #endif

+    memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
     addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
     addr.sin_port = htons(port);
     addr.sin_addr = settings.interface;

-- 
avva
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