$mydomain = $myhost;
$mydomain =~ s/^.*?\.//;
# This is set here to rescue systems with broken DNS
-$myip = $ENV{'WEBSERVER_IP'} || inet_ntoa(scalar gethostbyname($myhost||'localhost')) || die "Cannot get our own IP address: DNS fault?";
+if ( !gethostbyname( $myhost || 'localhost' ) ) {
+ die 'Could not get the IP address of ' . ( $myhost || 'localhost' ) . ', DNS fault?';
+}
+
+$myip = $ENV{'WEBSERVER_IP'} || inet_ntoa( scalar gethostbyname( $myhost||'localhost' ) );
$prefix = $ENV{'INSTALL_BASE'} || "/usr";
# These are our configuration guesses