Bug 1098050

Summary: getaddrinfo return EAI_NONAME instead of EAI_AGAIN in case the DNS query times out
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jan Kurik <jkurik>
Component: glibcAssignee: Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Arjun Shankar <ashankar>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.6CC: ashankar, codonell, fweimer, jkurik, jtrowbri, ksrot, mcermak, mnewsome, nalayil, pfrankli, pkis, pm-eus, spoyarek
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Fixed In Version: glibc-2.12-1.132.el6_5.2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The getaddrinfo function returns a permanent error EAI_NONAME when the DNS server is unreachable or the DNS query times out. This is now fixed so that the function returns EAI_AGAIN to indicate a temporary failure in name resolution.
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Last Closed: 2014-05-26 13:49:40 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1044628    
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Description Jan Kurik 2014-05-15 07:33:23 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #1044628 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-05-26 13:49:40 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0543.html