patches/glibc/2.9/170-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Tue Dec 29 21:16:51 2009 +0100 (2009-12-29)
changeset 1667 a5020a1facff
parent 1201 c9967a6e3b25
permissions -rw-r--r--
config: fix generated config files when GREP_OPTIONS set --color=always

grep is used when generating some .in files (in config.gen). If GREP_OPTIONS
contains --color=always, then the generated files will contains some escape
sequences setting the color, and mconf would choke on those escape sequences.

Always set and export an empty GREP_OPTIONS to avoid that.

Issue reported by Kevin Kirkup <kevin dot kirkup at gmail dot com> :
http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2009-12/msg00026.html
     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