[PATCH] Don't use gethostbyaddr to determine canonical name

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:00:16PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> As explained in the PR, it is wrong to try to determine the canonical
> name from the IP address.  The sole purpose of AI_CANONNAME is to look
> at a CNAME record if it exists, and using the name argument unchanged if
> not.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
> 	[BZ#15218]
> 	* sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c (gaih_inet): Don't use gethostbyaddr
> 	to determine canonical name.

Looks good to me too.  This patch has been in Fedora for a while
now[1], so it is also well tested.

Siddhesh

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/glibc.git/tree/glibc-fedora-gai-canonical.patch

Of course, you would know that since you had committed it :)