Follow-up Comment #5, bug #16509 (project freeciv):
I found an Ubuntu getnameinfo(3) at
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man3/getnameinfo.3.html
Further down, it says:
NI_NUMERICHOST
If set, then the numeric form of the hostname is
returned.
(When not set, this will still happen in case the node's
name
cannot be determined.)
If the manual page is correct, then Ubuntu getnameinfo() returns the
numerical address if there is no name. So NI_NAMEREQD would not fix this bug,
because getnameinfo() provides a numerical address, not an empty string.
There is no harm to add NI_NAMEREQD to the code, whether or not it fixes this
bug.
> Do you have an other idea how a connection can get an empty hostname?
* A pointer bug, that drops the name in the wrong buffer?
* A buffer size that is too small? (But this would probably cause a truncated
name instead of an empty name.)
* A bad DNS server that provides "" as name for some address?
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