Bug#389270: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#389270: additional information

[Florian Schlichting]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:50:01AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Nagy Gabor Peter <linux42 at freemail.hu> writes:
> 
> > So my impression is that it doesn't ask the DNS when it tries to connect
> > to the servers
> 
> AFAICT, fetchmail calls getaddrinfo() each and every time when connecting.

well, perhaps we are talking about a problem in getaddrinfo() then?

or a function call or configuration option that tells libc to not store
negative name resolution queries? (eg dnsmasq has such an option)

Florian
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