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Bug#490530: libc6: gethostbyaddr() times out if reverse dns not found



Yes - reading the trace closer it is obviously an avahi bug.

Regards, Thue

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Thue Janus Kristensen said:
> I noticed that when I tried pinging kalus.dk (which does not have
> reverse DNS at the time of writing), ping would only send a packet
> every 5 seconds.
>
> connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket"}, 110) = 0
> write(4, "RESOLVE-ADDRESS 89.233.27.15\n", 29) = 29
> read(4,
>
> [***Here there is a 5 second wait***]
>
> "-15 Timeout reached\n", 1024)  = 20
> close(4)                                = 0

Not that glibc doesn't have similar problems, but surely that's an avahi
bug?
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