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

[Matthias Andree]

Clemens Buchacher schrieb:

> I see. If there is a connection, the request succeeds:
> 
> drizzd at kzelldran:~/tmp$ ./gaitest 
> success, trying to free stuff.

Your name server is broken. I'm requesting a guaranteed-to-be-invalid
DNS name, there should not be "success".

> This is what I get, when no nameservers are available:
> 
> drizzd at kzelldran:~/tmp$ ./gaitest ; echo $?
> gai error: Temporary failure in name resolution
> ai is: 0xdeadbeef
> 
> attempting to free ai...
> caught sigsegv, aborting!
> 1

I wonder how your patch can then work without crashing fetchmail. Strange...