Host not found when A and AAAA queries are sent to DNS server and one response is a referral.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • "No address is associated with hostname" is returned when using the getaddrinfo() API call provided by glibc.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • glibc-2.9 and later

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