Regression in libbind's resolver initialization
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Fri Jul 6 03:02:25 UTC 2007
> In the 2.5 months since I last applied HP-UX patches to this system,
> the following compiler/linker patches (among 203 others) got applied
> in the latest go-around:
>
> PHSS_36336 11.23 linker + fdp cumulative patch
> PHSS_36343 11.23 aC++ Runtime
> PHSS_36344 11.23 Math Library Cumulative Patch
> PHSS_36345 11.23 Integrity Unwind Library
> PHSS_36347 11.23 assembler patch
>
> After recompiling libbind from v9.5.0a5 with Mark's res_init()
> patches, Vixie's dnscap program is finally running on the Itanium.
> What a colossal timesink this kind of issue can be :-(
I suspect that something wasn't initialising (zeroing) the
__res_state structure correctly.
Mark
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