In MacOS X 10.0.4, and probably other versions, getaddrinfo() is broken in
such a way that when you try to connect to certain hosts, openssh fails.
getaddrinfo is first failing the lookup, and then failing to return with an
error code when it does fail. I've found that if you define
BROKEN_GETADDRINFO for OS X, it compiles and runs just fine. This patch
against configure works for me:
--- configure.old Sat Jun 16 21:09:50 2001
+++ configure Thu Jul 5 17:04:28 2001
@@ -1498,6 +1498,11 @@
# Check for some target-specific stuff
case "$host" in
+*-*-darwin*)
+ cat >> confdefs.h <<\EOF
+#define BROKEN_GETADDRINFO 1
+EOF
+ ;;
*-*-aix*)
AFS_LIBS="-lld"
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFL
I hope you're the right folks to be reporting this to.
Yours,
--
Josh Larios Computing & Communications Client Services
University of Washington Box 352830 Seattle, WA 98195-2830
jdlarios at cac.washington.edu
