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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: nate@mt.sri.com, pst@shockwave.com
Subject: Re: Announce: Sendmail 8.8.3 in stable
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>Are you saying that the following patch broke libresolv?  How?

Yes.  host.h_length is 0 until it is set in the "else" clause.
Since the answers that return are not 0 length, they all get
ignored.

This is different in 4.9.4 because of its AAAA support.

  Bill