getaddrinfo fails with EAI_NODATA for some valid hosts with A records

Fri Jan 8 15:19:00 GMT 2016

Hi Brian,
On Jan 7 15:39, Brian Inglis wrote:
> getaddrinfo fails with err 7 EAI_NODATA for some valid hosts with A records. 
> Err 7 EAI_NODATA is mapped from WSANO_DATA err 11004 in Windows.
> Can anyone reproduce failure with problem host name below? 

Yes, I can reproduce it, and it's a total surprise.
In fact, this is *not* a Cygwin problem. I created an STC, a simple
mingw application, very certainly not using Cygwin at all:
$ cat gai.c
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0a00
#include <ws2tcpip.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#ifndef AI_DISABLE_IDN_ENCODING
#define AI_DISABLE_IDN_ENCODING 0x80000
#endif
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
 WSADATA wsadata;
 struct addrinfo hint, *res;
 int ret;
 WSAStartup (MAKEWORD(2,2), &wsadata);
 memset (&hint, 0, sizeof hint);
 hint.ai_flags = 0;//AI_V4MAPPED | AI_ADDRCONFIG | AI_CANONNAME | AI_DISABLE_IDN_ENCODING;
 hint.ai_family = 0;//AF_INET;
 ret = getaddrinfo (argv[1], NULL, &hint, &res);
 printf ("ret = %d\n", ret);
}
$ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -g -o gai gai.c -lws2_32
$ ./gai cygwin.org
ret = 0
$ ./gai www.sun.de
ret = 0
$ ./gai leapsecond.utcd.org
ret = 11004
I have no idea why Windows' getaddrinfo chokes on leapsecond.utcd.org
at all.
Corinna
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Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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