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

[Clemens Buchacher]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:31:19PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Your name server is broken. I'm requesting a guaranteed-to-be-invalid
> DNS name, there should not be "success".

No. This is how getaddrinfo behaves if a search list is given in
/etc/resolv.conf. In my case, the valid host name invalid.dyndns.org is
returned.

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

Not so. I don't know about the original fetchmail code, but the fetchmail
Debian package provides its own implementation of getaddrinfo.

Regards,
Clemens