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Bug#349461: marked as done (xtightvncviewer seems to ignore $HOSTALIASES as required by gethostbyname(7))

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and subject line Re: xtightvncviewer seems to ignore $HOSTALIASES as required by gethostbyname(7)
has caused the Debian Bug report #349461,
regarding xtightvncviewer seems to ignore $HOSTALIASES as required by gethostbyname(7)
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Package: xtightvncviewer
Version: 1.2.9-8
Severity: normal

I have a file $HOME/.hostaliases, with contents
...
bohr vpn252-75.cc.swin.edu.au
...
and have set $HOSTALIASES to $HOME/.hostaliases (see gethostbyname(7)
for description -- it's meant to be a glibc thing)

All programs I have come across to date obey this file, except of
course setuid progs.  xtightvncviewer is not setuid, but still seems
to ignore me setting a display of bohr:0:

> xtightvncviewer -encodings tight -geometry 1280x1024+0+0 -passwd /home/ssi/tconnors/.vnc/passwd  bohr:0
...
Couldn't convert 'bohr' to host address

Stracing all other programs (including X programs with DISPLAY set to
bohr:0) shows the program opening ~/.hostaliases, and finding a match,
but xtightvncviewer doesn't even try to access ~/.hostaliases.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages xtightvncviewer depends on:
ii  dpkg                      1.13.11.1      package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libice6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-11          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libsm6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxaw7                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii  libxext6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxp6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension
ii  libxpm4                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X pixmap library
ii  libxt6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  vnc-common                3.3.7-8        Virtual network computing server s
ii  xlibs                     6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-9      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xtightvncviewer recommends:
ii  xfonts-base               6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 standard fonts for X

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Sun, 2021-08-22 at 00:09 +0200, Sven Geuer wrote:
> Control: tags -1 = unreproducible,moreinfo
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:19:48 +1100 Tim Connors
> <tconnors+reportbug@astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:
> > Package: xtightvncviewer
> > Version: 1.2.9-8
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I have a file $HOME/.hostaliases, with contents
> > ...
> > bohr vpn252-75.cc.swin.edu.au
> > ...
> > and have set $HOSTALIASES to $HOME/.hostaliases (see
> > gethostbyname(7)
> > for description -- it's meant to be a glibc thing)
> > 
> > All programs I have come across to date obey this file, except of
> > course setuid progs.  xtightvncviewer is not setuid, but still
> > seems
> > to ignore me setting a display of bohr:0:
> > 
> > > xtightvncviewer -encodings tight -geometry 1280x1024+0+0 -passwd
> /home/ssi/tconnors/.vnc/passwd  bohr:0
> > ...
> > Couldn't convert 'bohr' to host address
> > [...]
> 
> I cannot reproduce this bug. At least with version 1:1.3.10-3
> xtightvncviewer considers $HOSTALIASES and the referenced file.
> 
> Is it still an issue for? Do you have instructions for me how to
> reproduce it?
> 
> Sven
> 

I close this bug as it is unreproducible and no evidence has been
provided it still exists.

Sven

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