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Patrick Williamsc124f4f2015-09-15 14:41:29 -05001Upstream-Status: Backport
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3* Mon Feb 5 2001 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
4- fix gethostbyname to work better with dot "." notation (#16949)
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6--- tcp_wrappers_7.6/socket.c.fixgethostbyname Fri Mar 21 13:27:25 1997
7+++ tcp_wrappers_7.6/socket.c Mon Feb 5 14:09:40 2001
8@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
9 char *name;
10 {
11 char dot_name[MAXHOSTNAMELEN + 1];
12-
13+ struct hostent *hp;
14+
15 /*
16 * Don't append dots to unqualified names. Such names are likely to come
17 * from local hosts files or from NIS.
18@@ -61,8 +62,12 @@
19 if (strchr(name, '.') == 0 || strlen(name) >= MAXHOSTNAMELEN - 1) {
20 return (gethostbyname(name));
21 } else {
22- sprintf(dot_name, "%s.", name);
23- return (gethostbyname(dot_name));
24+ sprintf(dot_name, "%s.", name);
25+ hp = gethostbyname(dot_name);
26+ if (hp)
27+ return hp;
28+ else
29+ return (gethostbyname(name));
30 }
31 }
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