On Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:05:37 +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:

> Although I think the bug that syslogd was running into was failure
> in source address selection.  Then the temporary bind failed as
> there was no suitable address.  There is no "specified address".

But the source address was specified in the sockaddr passed to
sendto(2), no?

> Perhaps "No suitable address is available..." for both sendto(2)
> and connect(2) is more precise.  And bind(2) talks about "the local
> machine".
> 
> So I guess we should say "No suitable address is available on the
> local machine."

If you think that is better, I have no real objection.

 - todd

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