[bug-inetutils] localhost.c

[kyle gibson]

On line 90 of localhost.c:

struct hostent *hp = gethostbyname(buf);

The above call (may) persist for an unreasonably long time before failing.

I realize that a solution would be to insert "127.0.0.1 <domain that I 
use>" into the /etc/hosts file, but, it may be worth it to consider 
setting up surrounding debug information, and perhaps a timeout of some 
sort. Specifically, the telnet command, would hang for nearly 30 seconds 
before continuing on. The '-d' (debug) flag did not indicate what was 
going on. Investigating the code, I discovered the above function call to 
be the issue.

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-kyle

to be free or not to be free. the answer is linux.