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Re: [PATCH] Don't require DNS labels to be host names

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at gmail dot com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat dot com>
Cc: libc-hacker at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:24:43 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't require DNS labels to be host names
References: <m34oc9869t.fsf@hase.home> <AANLkTikbvqeKtTfLN-FURcyfeqf82k2zxh_OQYb7a3LW@mail.gmail.com><m3zku16kvl.fsf@hase.home>

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:20, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrote:
> What do you mean with "more recent versions of libresolv"?

bind releases still have libresolv.

> Read the bug report.

I did and I am not at all convinced that anything done is valid.  The
code is as it is forever.  Invalid extensions by msft or others are
still invalid and don't warrant support.

Therefore the question: how did you come up with the patch?  There are
a lot of changes and there is no detailed explanation.

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