getaddrinfo fails to return all addresses of multi-homed hosts in /etc/hosts on first call

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • getaddrinfo fails to return all addresses of multi-homed hosts in /etc/hosts on first call
  • Subsequent calls to getaddrinfo work correctly and return all IP addresses associated with the hostname

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • glibc
  • Application which makes address lookups with getaddrinfo

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