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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: segmentation fault with long host names
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.203518.24899@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 90 20:35:18 GMT
Organization: Widener CS Dept
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 Howdy .. I just came across something strange. I'd like to verify it before
letting Sun know about it (in case it's a site-specific problem, rather
than a system problem).
 Whenever I try to do any operation on the name
	kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu
 with ping, telnet, ftp, etc, I get "Segmentation fault".
 But this also happens with other things .. dig bitches about a
truncated answer & says "connection refused"; host sits there staring.
Only nslookup has ever been able to deal with it.
 I'd say it's being snagged by MAXHOSTNAMELEN, but that doesn't make
sense; foo.bar.baz.mix.me.a.good.drink is dealable -- only when one
particular part of a FQDN is really long does it die.
 Whatcha think?



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