On 2015/03/01 18:19, Bryan Steele wrote: > It seems gethostbyname(3) fails if the answer returned is too big, for > example "chat.freenode.net" contains a lot of records that will easily > trigger this. > > This was introduced as part of the asr libc resolver rewrite. > > $ ping chat.freenode.net > ping: unknown host: chat.freenode.net > $ host chat.freenode.net | wc -l > 22 > $ > > I've doubled the value for MAXALIASES/MAXADDRS, which is closer > to the original of 35 (..in the Attic)
Surely the sane option would be to use the 35 that everyone else is using?
