ai_flags in BSD/OS

[The Doctor]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:35:09PM -0700, The Doctor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:52:27PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:
> > 
> > > The problem The Doctor has with innfeed (which cannnot send any
> > > articles) is written in his logs:
> > >
> > > Jan 30 11:44:48 gallifrey julien[732]: innfeed[16329]: ME starting at Fri Jan 30 11:44:48 2009\n (INN 2.5.0 (20090130 snapshot))
> > > Jan 30 11:44:48 gallifrey julien[732]: innfeed[16329]: loading /usr/home/julien/inn/install2.5/etc/innfeed.conf
> > > Jan 30 11:44:51 gallifrey julien[732]: innfeed[16329]: test can't resolve hostname news.trigofacile.com: Invalid value for ai_flags
> > > Jan 30 11:44:51 gallifrey julien[732]: innfeed[16329]: test spooling no active connections
> > >
> > > In innfeed/host.c, we have:
> > >    hints.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICSERV | AI_ADDRCONFIG;
> > >
> > > What should be used?
> > 
> > > AI_NUMERICSERV seems not to be defined in netdb.h (thus set to 0 by a
> > > #ifndef).  AI_ADDRCONFIG is defined.
> > 
> > Does it work if you omit AI_ADDRCONFIG?  The purpose of that flag is to
> > restrict the interfaces to ones that are configured in the kernel (thus
> > avoiding the attempt to create an IPv6 interface when none exists).  If
> > that flag is defined but doesn't work on BSD/OS, we may need to probe in
> > configure for whether it actually works.
> >
> 
> Everything in INN 2.4.X is working .
> 
> What cahnged in 2.5.X to break this?
>  
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