It seems gethostbyname(3) fails if the answer returned is too big, for
example "chat.freenode.net" contains a lot of records that will easily
trigger this.
This was introduced as part of the asr libc resolver rewrite.
$ ping chat.freenode.net
ping: unknown host: chat.freenode.net
$ host chat.freenode.net | wc -l
22
$
I've doubled the value for MAXALIASES/MAXADDRS, which is closer
to the original of 35 (..in the Attic)
ok?
Index: gethostnamadr_async.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/asr/gethostnamadr_async.c,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -p -u -r1.34 gethostnamadr_async.c
--- gethostnamadr_async.c 16 Jan 2015 16:48:51 -0000 1.34
+++ gethostnamadr_async.c 1 Mar 2015 22:52:17 -0000
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
#include "asr_private.h"
-#define MAXALIASES 16
-#define MAXADDRS 16
+#define MAXALIASES 32
+#define MAXADDRS 32
struct hostent_ext {
struct hostent h;
