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

Ulrich Drepper drepper@gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 18:41:00 GMT 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:12, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrote:
> 2011-06-22  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@redhat.com>
>
>        * sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c (gaih_inet): Don't use gethostbyaddr
>        to determine canonical name.

Explain the patch.  As usual there is nothing.  Of course using
gethostbyaddr is not perfect.  This is the last ditch effort.



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