Re: getaddrinfo() inquiry

[Andreas Jaeger]

Jonas Oberg <address@hidden> writes:

> I noticed earlier today that getaddrinfo() in glibc-2.2.4 does not
> handle the more esoteric dotquad-addresses (for example, `ping
> 0xc7.0350.19364'). This is in accordance with the man-page which
> states that only decimal dotquad-addresses are allowed, so it's not a
> bug.
>
> Several programs have begun relying on getaddrinfo() instead of the
> inet_aton() and gethostbyname() combination which makes them fail for
> such addresses.
>
> The question is really; is there any specification for how
> getaddrinfo() should behave? And if I made a patch to enable it to
> handle all kinds of dotquad-addresses, would it have any chance of
> being included in the glibc development tree?

Check the new posix standard, it's online available from the open
group,

Andreas
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