Kurt has filed a new bug report against eglibc
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15726
which draws the developers' attention to RFC3493 which specifies the return
values
of getaddrinfo(). These should be as follows.
> - Things work as expected: return 0
> - The nameserver replies that the hostname does not exist: EAI_FAIL
> - The nameserver doesn't reply, or replies with a temporary failure: EAI_AGAIN
> - You used AI_NUMERICHOST or AI_NUMERICSERV and didn't give a number:
> EAI_NONAME
Further discussion can best be carried on in the upstream Bugzilla ticket.
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Thomas Hood
