ssh not resolving host names on HP-UX 11i

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Fri Dec 5 16:03:14 EST 2003


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Tom Orban wrote:

[snip]
> The problem ultimately appears to be with the getaddrinfo that is
> supplied with HP-UX 11i.  In the ssh configure, it tries to see if
> there's a getaddrinfo available.  If so, it doesn't use the one in the
> openbsd-compat directory (file is fake-rfc2553.[ch]).  (this is what
> 11.00 automatically uses).  Since 11i does have a getaddrinfo, it tries
> to use that, but it appears to be broken.  So I just added the following
> lines to configure (around line 3782)
> 
>         cat >>confdefs.h <<\EOF
> #define BROKEN_GETADDRINFO 1
> EOF
> 

Is it safe to define BROKEN_GETADDRINFO on all HP-UX 11 machines?
Ie. can we match *-*-hpux11* from config.guess?
Or do some 11 machines work?

[snip]
> 
> >>> Tim Rice <tim at multitalents.net> 12/04/03 06:30PM >>>
> 
> I can't remember if this was answered or not. (cleaning out old mail)
> 
> This might help.
> 	http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748 
> 
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