Hi Stéphane,

Have you filed a bug report for this issue yet?  That would be the best way 
forward to try to understand and hopefully resolve the problem you're running 
into.

Dieter

> On Jan 7, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Stéphane Sudre <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Problem:
> --------
> 
> I have a launchd daemon that performs DNS requests using getaddrinfo to 
> retrieve the IP(s) for a series of hosts' names.
> 
> • On Yosemite:
> 
> The requests all fail (EAI_NONAME) when they are run just after the daemon 
> has been launched. They also fail 1 minute later. They again fail 1 minute 
> later. And they again fail 1 minute later.
> 
> Killing the process via Activity Monitor (*) automatically restarts the 
> daemon as expected.
> 
> And then the requests that should succeed do succeed on the first attempt.
> 
> Also if you were to perform a nslookup (from the Terminal) query during that 
> time with the same hosts' names, it would work fine.
> 
> 
> • On Mountain Lion:
> 
> The requests that should succeed do succeed. At least on the computer I used.
> 
> Discussion:
> -----------
> 
> I could understand that just after boot time the DNS APIs would not be ready. 
> I can not understand why they still do not work 3 minutes after startup time.
> 
> Question:
> ---------
> 
> What could prevent the getaddrinfo from working? Could it be some mach 
> bootstrap context issue?
> 
> 
> 
> According to the doc, this API is supposed to be thread safe. A hostname is 
> correctly provided, a hints structure is provided (using NULL does not solve 
> the issue).
> 
> 
> 
> (*) I'm wondering whether it's the designed behavior of Activity Monitor that 
> you can force kill a root process without having to enter your admin password.
> 
> 
> 
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