segmentation fault with long host names

[Philip Gladstone]

>>>>> On 20 Dec 90 20:35:18 GMT, brendan at cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) said:

Brendan>  But this also happens with other things .. dig bitches about a
Brendan> truncated answer & says "connection refused"; host sits there staring.
Brendan> Only nslookup has ever been able to deal with it.

The response that I got from dig seems to point at a potential
problem. This host has a *LOT* (26) of address records. Unfortunately I
can't test this hypothesis as my ftp doesn't crash when trying to call it.

Philip
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