Bug#582916: libc6: getaddrinfo() returns EAI_NONAME for temporary problem.

2012-11-01 Thread Jens Thiele
similar report upstream: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12994 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#582916: Info received (Bug#582916: libc6: getaddrinfo() returns EAI_NONAME for temporary problem.)

2012-11-01 Thread Jens Thiele
updated test: /*BINFMTC: -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter test for getaddrinfo bug: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME when it should return EAI_EAGAIN getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME when it should return EAI_EAGAIN for hosts with A but no record and there is packet loss and/or a a

Bug#582916: libc6: getaddrinfo() returns EAI_NONAME for temporary problem.

2012-11-01 Thread Jens Thiele
see the same here under specific circumstances: to reproduce the following test (see also the comments): /*BINFMTC: test for getaddrinfo bug: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME when it should return EAI_EAGAIN getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME when it should return EAI_EAGAIN for hosts with A

Bug#582916: libc6: getaddrinfo() returns EAI_NONAME for temporary problem.

2010-05-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Package: libc6 Version: 2.10.2-6 Severity: important Hi, It seems that getaddrinfo() now returns EAI_NONAME for a non-permanent error. Trying to resolve something using "host" or "dig", I get as error: ";; connection timed out; no servers could be reached" That is clearly different that an error