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From: Bill Fenner <fenner>
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To: jacs@gnome.co.uk, pst
Subject: Re: WARNING gethostbydns brocken ?
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Chris,

Does this fix it?

  Bill

cvs diff: Diffing .
Index: gethostbydns.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/net/gethostbydns.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4.4.5
diff -c -r1.4.4.5 gethostbydns.c
*** gethostbydns.c	1996/11/20 18:36:37	1.4.4.5
--- gethostbydns.c	1996/11/22 02:09:42
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*** 392,397 ****
--- 392,399 ----
  		return (NULL);
  	}
  
+ 	host.h_length = INT32SZ;
+ 
  	/*
  	 * if there aren't any dots, it could be a user-level alias.
  	 * this is also done in res_query() since we are not the only