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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10smp i686)

Description of problem:
ypbind will lock if /etc/yp.conf contains an unresolvable server hostname
somewhere other than the last line of the file. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
put a bogus server hostname in /etc/yp.conf

start ypbind

Additional info:

This patch will fix the problem:
--- ypbind-mt-1.8/src/serv_list.c	Mon Aug 13 15:07:22 2001
    ypbind-mt-1.8/src/serv_list.c	Mon Aug 13 15:07:24 2001
@@ -456,6  456,7 @@
 		  log_msg (LOG_ERR, _("gethostbyname: Unknown error"));
 		  break;
 		}
 	      pthread_rdwr_wunlock_np (&domainlock);
 	      return;
 	    }
 	  if (hent->h_addr_list[0] == NULL)