patches/glibc/2.9/170-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Mon Jan 03 23:40:22 2011 +0100 (2011-01-03)
changeset 2267 7af68e6083aa
parent 1201 c9967a6e3b25
permissions -rw-r--r--
libc-glibc: remove 2.3.6

This is an obsolete version which is no longer used by any sample (the only
user, the ia64 sample, has been removed).

It also makes the code path a bit complex, with twists just to accomodate
that version. Removing the version will make those twists go away, and
will ease commonalisation of glibc and eglibc in the future (hopefully!).

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
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Original patch from: gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.9/0080_all_glibc-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch
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-= BEGIN original header =-
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7060
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/250468
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The gethostbyname4() lookup method is problematic since it fires out both
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the A and AAAA DNS queries in parallel and over the same socket. This
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should work in theory, but it turns out that many cheap DSL modems and
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similar devices have buggy DNS servers - if the AAAA query arrives too
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quickly after the A query, the server will generate only a single reply
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with the A query id but returning an error for the AAAA query; we get
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stuck waiting for the second reply.
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For gethostbyname4() users affected, disabling IPv6 in the system might
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work around the issue, unfortunately it only helps with applications
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using AI_ADDRCONFIG (e.g. Firefox); some (notably e.g. Pidgin) neglect
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to do that.
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Real fix should be using separate ports for the A and AAAA queries.
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-= END original header =-
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diff -durN glibc-2_9.orig/resolv/Versions glibc-2_9/resolv/Versions
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--- glibc-2_9.orig/resolv/Versions	2008-08-01 19:15:34.000000000 +0200
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+++ glibc-2_9/resolv/Versions	2009-02-02 22:00:46.000000000 +0100
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@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
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     _nss_dns_gethostbyname_r; _nss_dns_getnetbyaddr_r;
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     _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r; _nss_dns_getcanonname_r;
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     _nss_dns_gethostbyaddr2_r;
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-    _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r;
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+#    _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r;
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   }
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 }
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