gethostbyname error?

["Balchand Y" <balchandy at hotmail dot com>]

Is there any known information about some corruption in the call to gethostbyname?  I consistently can produce the error below.  This is on RedHat 7.1 stock kernel.

 

#0 0x10311100 in syslog () at eval.c:41

#1 0x5d057d8b in getanswer_r (answer=0x5d006224, anslen=189,

qname=0x5d10a08c "hk.wired.lycosasia.com", qtype=1, result=0x403d68a0,

buffer=0x5d109ef8 "£ \020]", buflen=1024, errnop=0x5d006c88,

h_errnop=0x5d0066ec, map=0) at nss_dns/dns-host.c:633

#2 0x5d0571e3 in _nss_dns_gethostbyname2_r (

name=0x5903825b "hk.wired.lycosasia.com", af=2, result=0x403d68a0,

buffer=0x5d109ef8 "£ \020]", buflen=1024, errnop=0x5d006c88,

h_errnop=0x5d0066ec) at nss_dns/dns-host.c:195

#3 0x5d0584b5 in _nss_dns_gethostbyname_r (

name=0x5903825b "hk.wired.lycosasia.com", result=0x403d68a0,

buffer=0x5d109ef8 "£ \020]", buflen=1024, errnop=0x5d006c88,

h_errnop=0x5d0066ec) at nss_dns/dns-host.c:210

#4 0x403a0ef3 in __gethostbyname_r (name=0x5903825b "hk.wired.lycosasia.com",

resbuf=0x403d68a0, buffer=0x5d109ef8 "£ \020]", buflen=1024,

result=0x5d0066e8, h_errnop=0x5d0066ec) at ../nss/getXXbyYY_r.c:200

#5 0x403a08dd in gethostbyname (name=0x5903825b "hk.wired.lycosasia.com")

at ../nss/getXXbyYY.c:131