Avoiding a deadlock

Hi!

In light of Debian Bug#386122 <http://bugs.debian.org/386122> I wonder
what a good solution would be to prevent syslogd from entering a
deadlock with named.

An asynchronous resolver library would solve this problem, of course,
but would create a new library dependency. I believe that this should
be avoided.

Another solution seems to be to add a timeout to the call to
gethostbyaddr(). This, however, is not exactly provided by POSIX
libc. Maybe somebody here is interested in working on a solution to
this rare scenario?

Regards,

        Joey

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