On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:10:04PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> --On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 2:59 PM +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >  +  PR 24469, broken reverse lookups with IPv4-mapped addrs on old OS X
> >  +    The autoconf check added between 2.0.47 and 2.0.48 isn't
> >  +    sufficient for catching the OS X problem, because building the
> >  +    IPv4 numeric address string from IPv4-mapped address would work
> >  +    but actually resolving the host would not.  To catch the check
> >  +    via retcode, you have to specify the NI_NAMEREQD flag.
> 
> I think APR 1.0 already has this fix.  It's probably that we need to 
> backport r1.24 of build/apr_network.m4 (which was done after the 0.9 branch 
> point). Or, am I misunderstanding? 

As long as the broken version of OS X ships with an /etc/hosts file
or some equivalent and resolver library that will resolve 127.0.0.1,
that should be absolutely fine.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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