Probably broken getaddrinfo() on Solaris x86.

[openssh-unix-dev at thewrittenword.com]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:28:16PM +0200, Konrad Rieck wrote:
> I discovered a strange problem with the latest version (2.9.9p2) and previous
> versions of OpenSSH when using portforwarding und Solaris 8 x86. 
> 
> It seems like the getaddrinfo() function on Solaris 8 x86 is somehow broken,
> instead of binding a port to 127.0.0.1, OpenSSH tried to bind it to
> 1.0.0.127 (1.0.0.127 was the ai->ai_addr returned by getaddrinfo() in
> channel.c). 
> 
> I could not reproduce this on Solaris 8 Sparc and I assume that Sun
> developers mixed endianess on the x86 platform. 
> 
> I could fix the problem by marking the getaddrinfo() function as broken 
> on Solaris 8 x86 (#define BROKEN_GETADDRINFO 1).
> 
> Maybe someone of you could recheck this problem and try to find a better
> fix for it. 

I just checked sunsolve.sun.com and I think patch id 111328-01 fixes
this problem. I don't have a Sol 8/Intel machine to test.

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)