From c06f72661447a897d66ee18826044111df7f428e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:35:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] GetHost() now sets the third pointer to NULL when the lookup
 fails, as the memory is then freed in the function

---
 lib/hostip.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/hostip.c b/lib/hostip.c
index 89ac57462..dc2ed0aec 100644
--- a/lib/hostip.c
+++ b/lib/hostip.c
@@ -187,12 +187,14 @@ struct hostent *GetHost(struct UrlData *data,
       infof(data, "gethostbyname_r(2) failed for %s\n", hostname);
       h = NULL; /* set return code to NULL */
       free(buf);
+      *bufp=NULL;
     }
 #else
   else {
     if ((h = gethostbyname(hostname)) == NULL ) {
       infof(data, "gethostbyname(2) failed for %s\n", hostname);
       free(buf);
+      *bufp=NULL;
     }
 #endif
   }