1.7.0: getnameinfo bug

Mark J. Reed markjreed@gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 13:23:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug  6 09:01, Mark J. Reed wrote:

>> According to the RFC (2553), the specific behavior here is not defined:

> Microsoft's getnameinfo man page conveniently notes that this is the desired
> behaviour according to section 6.2 of RFC 3493.

Whups!  I was looking at an obsolete RFC.  My mistake.  Sure enough, 3493 says

   If the service's name cannot be located, the numeric form of the
   service address (for example, its port number) shall be returned
   instead of its name.

I'll go back to lurking now.


-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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