On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 10:21:39AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015/03/01 18:19, Bryan Steele wrote: > > It seems gethostbyname(3) fails if the answer returned is too big, for > > example "chat.freenode.net" contains a lot of records that will easily > > trigger this. > > > > This was introduced as part of the asr libc resolver rewrite. > > > > $ ping chat.freenode.net > > ping: unknown host: chat.freenode.net > > $ host chat.freenode.net | wc -l > > 22 > > $ > > > > I've doubled the value for MAXALIASES/MAXADDRS, which is closer > > to the original of 35 (..in the Attic) > > Surely the sane option would be to use the 35 that everyone else > is using?
I think 16, 32 and 35 are all pretty arbitrary.. :-) I've also sent mail to eric@ and gilles@, no reply yet.
