getaddrinfo()-related replication problem on FreeBSD

[Ira Cooper]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 02:12 +0300, Andriy Syrovenko wrote:
>> Andrew,
>>
>> > A patch to the wscript to detect platforms with this breakage (I'm
>> > surprised it hasn't been noticed elsewhere before!) and then a patch to
>> > force the flag on seems most sensible at this point.
>>
>> The getaddrinfo() function on FreeBSD fails this way (i.e. returns
>> EAI_FAIL) only when the following conditions are met:
>>
>> * The host name in question contains underscore.
>> * The host name in question exists. If the name does not exists the
>> function returns EAI_NONAME.
>> * The host name in question is in the DNS. If it is placed in
>> /etc/hosts the function succeeds.
>>
>> This makes basing detection of this kind of breakage on the analysis
>> of the function's behavior particularly difficult. I don't see any
>> other way to detect this kind of breakage except by checking for a
>> particular OS name (and possibly version as well). Is this approach
>> acceptable?
>
> It seems a very deliberate policy decision then.  I guess we may just
> have to blacklist FreeBSD on this point then.
>
> The problem is that by not testing it (I can't see how we can, without
> doing DNS lookups in configure, which would suck) we will never know how
> far the rot spreads (what about the other BSDs?).

Have you tried pinging the FreeBSD folks?  I can't believe they'd
randomly break this.  If they did it intentionally, it'd be good to
know why, in case we start seeing it elsewhere.

-Ira