diff -r 9227d2a2c080 -r c4d124ed9f8e patches/glibc/2_9/170-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch --- a/patches/glibc/2_9/170-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch Sat Apr 11 19:03:02 2009 +0000 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -Original patch from: gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.9/0080_all_glibc-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch - --= BEGIN original header =- -http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7060 -http://bugs.gentoo.org/250468 - -The gethostbyname4() lookup method is problematic since it fires out both -the A and AAAA DNS queries in parallel and over the same socket. This -should work in theory, but it turns out that many cheap DSL modems and -similar devices have buggy DNS servers - if the AAAA query arrives too -quickly after the A query, the server will generate only a single reply -with the A query id but returning an error for the AAAA query; we get -stuck waiting for the second reply. - -For gethostbyname4() users affected, disabling IPv6 in the system might -work around the issue, unfortunately it only helps with applications -using AI_ADDRCONFIG (e.g. Firefox); some (notably e.g. Pidgin) neglect -to do that. - -Real fix should be using separate ports for the A and AAAA queries. - --= END original header =- - -diff -durN glibc-2_9.orig/resolv/Versions glibc-2_9/resolv/Versions ---- glibc-2_9.orig/resolv/Versions 2008-08-01 19:15:34.000000000 +0200 -+++ glibc-2_9/resolv/Versions 2009-02-02 22:00:46.000000000 +0100 -@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ - _nss_dns_gethostbyname_r; _nss_dns_getnetbyaddr_r; - _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r; _nss_dns_getcanonname_r; - _nss_dns_gethostbyaddr2_r; -- _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r; -+# _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r; - } - } -