patches/glibc/2.9/170-2.10-dns-no-gethostbyname4.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Sun Oct 03 23:10:46 2010 +0200 (2010-10-03)
changeset 2130 b46ecc90d3ab
parent 1201 c9967a6e3b25
permissions -rw-r--r--
complibs: better deduce whether to backup complibs or not

To decide whether we need to backup the companion libraries,
do not rely on the !shared case. In the future other cases
may require not to save the companion libraries (eg. if using
the ones provided by the host distro).

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