It was on an Ubuntu 10.10 x86-64 machine; the address string was "127.0.0.1"
but glibc nevertheless invoked getaddrinfo(). The machine has gcc 4.4.5 and
glibc version EGLIBC 2.12.1

Daniel asked:
>Andy, are you saying that your test target makes an actual DNS resolve of
an
>IP-only string? And if so, what exactly does it try to resolve and what is
the
>result?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Andy Tai <atai_at_atai.org> wrote:

> Hi, I hope the attached diff for lib/hostip6.c can be considered. In
> lib/hostip4.c numerical IP addresses can be detected and a trip to the DNS
> resolver is avoided; however this is not the case in hostip6.c. The
> attached patch makes it the same, at least for IPv4 numerical addresses.
>
>

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