Half-initialized result in getaddrinfo when using nscd in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • nscd return garbage on some occasion (RHEL 7)
  • localhost lookup failure with nscd and java8 with option -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • glibc

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