Bug 29630 - host command core dumps when given alternate dns server
Summary: host command core dumps when given alternate dns server
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: binutils
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-26 22:42 UTC by adler
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-26 22:43:03 UTC
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Description adler 2001-02-26 22:42:56 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.11enterprise i686)


The host command (and also nslookup) core dump when asked to use an other
server besides the default one. For example:

[adler@ool-18bea4a7 adler]$ host -t mx stephenadler.net DNS2.NAMESECURE.COM
Segmentation fault


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Execute the command 'host' and give it an alternate dns server
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3.
	

Actual Results:  core dump

Expected Results:  nice text output regarding dns host name information
Comment 1 Preston Brown 2001-02-26 23:37:52 UTC 
fixed in wolverine.
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