getaddrinfo()-related replication problem on FreeBSD

[Scott Lovenberg]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 20:17 -0400, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> >
> >
> >         It seems a very deliberate policy decision then.  I guess we
> >         may just
> >         have to blacklist FreeBSD on this point then.
> >
> >
> >  Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this the nuclear option?  Is there a
> > more reasonable option?
>
> I don't see a more reasonable option at this point.  We simply can't use
> the getaddrinfo() call on this platform.  If we really wanted to refine
> it, we could start searching for _ i the name before we looked it up,
> but then we really do get down special-case codepaths.
>
> That sounds like a losing proposition.  I understand your position.