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To: FreeBSD-current <current@freebsd.org>, peter@freebsd.org,
        wpaul@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Serious bug in gethostbydns!!!
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gethostbyname() now can't search some short valid DNS name like:
"d133", "bed", "fade", etc. (Which looks like hexadecimal digits)
doe to this stupid line in gethostbydns.c

	if (isxdigit(name[0]) || name[0] == ':')

I.e. it convert this name to hexadecimal number and not search it
as in normal case. Please, fix it!

This bug was introduced from in v1.16 of gethostbydns.c

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Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/