Re: bug in gethostbyname_r?

[Greg Herlein]

> > I suspect a bug in the gethostbyname_r function in glibc.  I have
> > attached test code that demonstrates that using the normal
> > (non-reentrant) gethostbyname all is well, but using
> > gethostbyname_r fails.

> It is a very old and fixed glibc bug (for over one year) in the 
> libnss_dns module. You can find an update for SuSE Linux 6.2 on 
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/a1 or mirrors.

I had already applied that fix.  The new libnss_dns.so.2  is
installed and the problem still exists.

Greg

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