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From:
Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@wxcvbn.org>
Subject:
Re: asr: reject zero-length aliases / canon name in gethostbyname(3) / getaddrinfo(3).
To:
tech <tech@openbsd.org>
Date:
Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:04:16 +0200

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On Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 10:06:54PM +0200, Florian Obser wrote:
> An empty string is arguably not a correct hostname (even though
> res_hnok accepts it). More worrisome though is software not expecting
> this and making mistakes. In practice this cannot happen unless the
> resolver lies to us.
> 
> OK?

Makes sense to me, ok jca@

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jca