Re: The empty string is not a valid host name

Florian Obser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.tech
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-04-11 10:42 +02, Florian Obser <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've spotted this while working on something else.
>
> OK?
>

Going through diffs that didn't make release. OK?

diff --git lib/libc/net/res_comp.c lib/libc/net/res_comp.c
index ce9f92ae771..43d50f93c2b 100644
--- lib/libc/net/res_comp.c
+++ lib/libc/net/res_comp.c
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ __res_hnok(const char *dn)
 {
 	int pch = PERIOD, ch = *dn++;
 
+	if (ch == '\0')
+		return (0);
+
 	while (ch != '\0') {
 		int nch = *dn++;
 


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