Re: DNS broken in 5.21

[Simon <nmap-dev () the-jedi co uk>]

On 01/28/2010 08:06 PM, David Fifield wrote:

[snip]
> Thanks for checking this out. At least, it may help future web
> searchers. Can you tell what function call is leading to that connect?
> My guess is that it's gethostbyname but it could be something else.
>
> It is quite a strange error. As I said, Nmap is just doing
> gethostbyname. Ncat uses getaddrinfo for all its name resolution, so
> that may be the difference.

I've  got a bit more info now - just tried 5.00 from the fedora
repositories on a 64-bit f12 laptop and it doesn't have the problem, and
also doesn't have nscd running.

I installed the 5.21 rpm from insecure.org and its broken now, so i'd
say its probably a packaging thing.

If its not packaging, then the error is from gethostbyname() in
TargetGroup.cc

Simon.

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