chunks of res_comp.c and replacing it with chunks of bind-8.1.1's resolver
code. (There are no interface changes though)
The other parts are better bounds checking related.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
- getservent:
o put _yp_check() proto under #ifdef YP where it belongs
o local YP buffers should be YPMAXRECORD + 2 bytes long and should
be NUL terminated after copying
- gethostbynis:
o local YP buffer should be YPMAXRECORD + 2 bytes long
- getnetbynis:
o local YP buffer should be YPMAXRECORD + 2 bytes long and should
be NUL terminated after copying
- ether_addr:
o local YP buffers should be YPMAXRECORD + 2 bytes long and should
be NUL terminated after copying (in this case it's BUFSIZ + 2 bytes,
but it happens that BUFSIZ == YPMAXRECORD.
- gethostbydns:
o nuke stray 'return(NULL)' in __dns_getanswer() (harmless but looks silly)
These are 2.2 candidates. I will wait a few days to make sure these don't
break anything and then, if there are no objections, move them to the 2.2
branch.
of BIND, we need to tweak some things to that gethostanswer() knows
whether or not we're dealing with an IPv4 or IPv6 address. (This'll
teach me to use a 2.1.0 system for NIS development -- but it's so nice
and stable I just can't being myself to upgrade it. :)
Note that this was done by selective patching from diffs, to not conflict
with the 4.4bsd base code.. This was *not* a trivial task.. I have been
testing this code (apart from cosmetic changes) in my libc for a while now.
Obtained from: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
incredibly obnoxious, but also makes inverse mappings work when the local
resolver is in a cache-only configuration. (Maybe this is actually
a bug in BIND?)