Package: libc6
Version: 2.10.1-7
Programs which use getaddrinfo() to resolve addresses fail most of the
time. I tried to get to the bottom of the error and came up with the
following little program, that exhibits the error.
test.c
===
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(void)
{
struct addrinfo * result;
int error;
error = getaddrinfo("ftp.de.debian.org", "http", NULL, &result);
if(error != 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "error in getaddrinfo: %d / %s\n", error,
gai_strerror(error));
if(error == EAI_SYSTEM)
{
fprintf(stderr, "system error: %d / %s\n", errno,
strerror(errno));
}
return 1;
}
freeaddrinfo(result);
return 0;
}
===
The output is as follows, which seems wrong in itself to me.
===
error in getaddrinfo: -11 / System error
system error: 0 / Success
===
Now the thing is, when I replace the service string "http" with NULL,
it works perfectly. But "ftp.de.debian.org:http" for instance is what
aptitude wants to query and it fails which makes my system
un-upgradable at the moment.
Thanks for your time,
Hagen.
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