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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:53:42 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>, stable@freebsd.org, fenner@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Announce: Sendmail 8.8.3 in stable 
Message-ID:  <199611221753.KAA17565@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611221744.JAA06363@precipice.shockwave.com>
References:  <199611221548.IAA16914@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199611221744.JAA06363@precipice.shockwave.com>

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Paul Traina writes:
>   From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
>   Subject: Re: Announce: Sendmail 8.8.3 in stable 
>   > I've passed off diffs for the hard part of the bind update to peter
>   > for review,  however there's no need to upgrade to 4.9.5, just apply
>   > the patch (which I think I also applied to stable yesterday).
>   
>   Right, but that patch broke libresolv.
>   
> Wait, let's be clear here.
> 
> Are you saying that the following patch broke libresolv?

Apparently, yes.

> How?

I don't know, but Bill posted a patch that supposedly fixes the patch.
It's appended below.  I'm now updating a test box to 2.1.5 (it's a slow
beast) and will test it out to make sure it works, but so far we've had
2-3 reports of brokeness w/out the patch, and one good report of Bill's
patch fixing the problem.


Nate
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Index: gethostbydns.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/CVS/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 17:53:30
***************
*** 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



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