1Upstream-Status: Backport
2
3* Mon Feb  5 2001 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
4- fix gethostbyname to work better with dot "." notation (#16949)
5
6--- tcp_wrappers_7.6/socket.c.fixgethostbyname	Fri Mar 21 13:27:25 1997
7+++ tcp_wrappers_7.6/socket.c	Mon Feb  5 14:09:40 2001
8@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
9 char   *name;
10 {
11     char    dot_name[MAXHOSTNAMELEN + 1];
12-
13+    struct hostent *hp;
14+
15     /*
16      * Don't append dots to unqualified names. Such names are likely to come
17      * from local hosts files or from NIS.
18@@ -61,8 +62,12 @@
19     if (strchr(name, '.') == 0 || strlen(name) >= MAXHOSTNAMELEN - 1) {
20 	return (gethostbyname(name));
21     } else {
22-	sprintf(dot_name, "%s.", name);
23-	return (gethostbyname(dot_name));
24+        sprintf(dot_name, "%s.", name);
25+        hp = gethostbyname(dot_name);
26+	if (hp)
27+	    return hp;
28+	else
29+	    return (gethostbyname(name));
30     }
31 }
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