Commit df188ac2 authored by Rémi Denis-Courmont's avatar Rémi Denis-Courmont

Bug to really-stupid-and-worrisomely-not-fixed-for-more-than-ten-years

bug for Winsock DNS resolver, inasmuch as is possible - closes #445.

Should it fail to fix the bug, I'm afraid there would be no solution,
but not to use Windows without its IPv6 stack.
parent d0f2c33c
......@@ -227,10 +227,8 @@ __getnameinfo( const struct sockaddr *sa, socklen_t salen,
solved = 1;
}
}
#else
sent = NULL;
#endif
if (sent == NULL)
#endif
{
snprintf (serv, servlen, "%u",
(unsigned int)ntohs (addr->sin_port));
......@@ -343,6 +341,31 @@ __getaddrinfo (const char *node, const char *service,
int protocol = 0, flags = 0;
const char *name = NULL;
#ifdef WIN32
/*
* Maybe you knew already that Winsock does not handle TCP/RST packets
* properly, so that when a TCP connection fails, it will wait until it
* times out even if the remote host did return a TCP/RST. However, it
* still sees the TCP/RST as the error code is 10061 instead of 10060.
* Basically, we have the stupid brainfucked behavior with DNS queries...
* When the recursive DNS server returns an error, Winsock waits about
* 2 seconds before it returns to the callers, even though it should know
* that is pointless. I'd like to know how come this hasn't been fixed
* for the past decade, or maybe not.
*
* Anyway, this is causing a severe delay when the SAP listener tries
* to resolve more than ten IPv6 numeric addresses. Modern systems will
* eventually realize that it is an IPv6 address, and won't try to resolve
* it as a IPv4 address via the Domain Name Service. Old systems
* (including Windows XP without the IPv6 stack) will not. It is normally
* not an issue as the DNS server usually returns an error very quickly.
* But it IS a severe issue on Windows, given the bug explained above.
* So here comes one more bug-to-bug Windows compatibility fix.
*/
if ((node != NULL) && (strchr (node, ':') != NULL))
return EAI_NONAME;
#endif
if (hints != NULL)
{
flags = hints->ai_flags;
......
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