Created attachment 9560 [details] Proposed fix Using IPPROTO_UDPLITE in a hint (ai_protocol) for getaddrinfo() is broken, it never returns meaningful result. That's because the code is searching for 'port/udplite' definitions in the /etc/services file and it has none of that. RFC 3828 defining UDP-Lite protocol in the section 3.1 says: The fields Source Port and Destination Port are defined as in the UDP specification [RFC-768]. UDP-Lite uses the same set of port number values assigned by the IANA for use by UDP. This statement is also reasserted by the RFC 6335 (in section 1): The Lightweight User Datagram Protocol (UDP-Lite) shares the port space with UDP. The UDP-Lite specification [RFC3828] says: "UDP-Lite uses the same set of port number values assigned by the IANA for use by UDP". An update of the UDP procedures therefore also results in a corresponding update of the UDP-Lite procedures. So given that UDP-Lite and UDP explicitly share their port number values, I think it should be fixed in the C library. The patch attached changes the gaih_inet_typeproto structure to use "udp" name for UDP-Lite lookups. At the moment this name is only used to search things so it should be safe to do it this way, although, of course I might be wrong and there is some other way to fix it.