patches/glibc/2.9/170-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Sat Jan 29 00:57:02 2011 +0100 (2011-01-29)
changeset 2285 7d1e018167b5
parent 1201 c9967a6e3b25
permissions -rw-r--r--
comptools: add make-3.81

Since the advent of make-3.82, some packages now break due to changes
in make-3.82, being stricter than 3.81 when interpreting the Makefiles.

This has bugged us a bit too much so far, and I believe fixing all
of them is a long road, while simply building make-3.81 is the easiest
route for now.

Of course, in the long term, packages will get fixed upstream, and we
should back-port the fixes to old versions, and get rid of building
make-3.81. In the meantime...

Reported several times on the mailing list.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
     1 Original patch from: gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.9/0080_all_glibc-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch
     2 
     3 -= BEGIN original header =-
     4 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7060
     5 http://bugs.gentoo.org/250468
     6 
     7 The gethostbyname4() lookup method is problematic since it fires out both
     8 the A and AAAA DNS queries in parallel and over the same socket. This
     9 should work in theory, but it turns out that many cheap DSL modems and
    10 similar devices have buggy DNS servers - if the AAAA query arrives too
    11 quickly after the A query, the server will generate only a single reply
    12 with the A query id but returning an error for the AAAA query; we get
    13 stuck waiting for the second reply.
    14 
    15 For gethostbyname4() users affected, disabling IPv6 in the system might
    16 work around the issue, unfortunately it only helps with applications
    17 using AI_ADDRCONFIG (e.g. Firefox); some (notably e.g. Pidgin) neglect
    18 to do that.
    19 
    20 Real fix should be using separate ports for the A and AAAA queries.
    21 
    22 -= END original header =-
    23 
    24 diff -durN glibc-2_9.orig/resolv/Versions glibc-2_9/resolv/Versions
    25 --- glibc-2_9.orig/resolv/Versions	2008-08-01 19:15:34.000000000 +0200
    26 +++ glibc-2_9/resolv/Versions	2009-02-02 22:00:46.000000000 +0100
    27 @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
    28      _nss_dns_gethostbyname_r; _nss_dns_getnetbyaddr_r;
    29      _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r; _nss_dns_getcanonname_r;
    30      _nss_dns_gethostbyaddr2_r;
    31 -    _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r;
    32 +#    _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r;
    33    }
    34  }
    35