Update all copyright messages to cover 1995 - 2009. Remove tab from exim_checkaccess.src

[exim.git] / src / src / host.c

diff --git a/src/src/host.c b/src/src/host.c
index 24c4bec791a1a36cc4cc7b527af859bebcd3fa7b..73f359348e34bfcac729960845119fd322651fa3 100644 (file)
--- a/src/src/host.c
+++ b/src/src/host.c
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/host.c,v 1.27 2006/11/20 14:29:31 ph10 Exp $ */
+/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/host.c,v 1.31 2009/11/16 19:50:37 nm4 Exp $ */
 
 /*************************************************
 *     Exim - an Internet mail transport agent    *
 *************************************************/
 
-/* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2006 */
+/* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2009 */
 /* See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. */
 
 /* Functions for finding hosts, either by gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), or
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ sprintf(addr, "%d.%d.%d.%d",
 very good for the uses to which it is put. When running the regression tests,
 start with a fixed seed.
 
+If you need better, see pseudo_random_number() which is potentially stronger,
+if a crypto library is available, but might end up just calling this instead.
+
 Arguments:
   limit:    one more than the largest number required
 
@@ -79,6 +82,8 @@ Returns:    a pseudo-random number in the range 0 to limit-1
 int
 random_number(int limit)
 {
+if (limit < 1)
+  return 0;
 if (random_seed == 0)
   {
   if (running_in_test_harness) random_seed = 42; else
@@ -1502,7 +1507,7 @@ if (hosts == NULL)
 treat this as non-existent. In some operating systems, this is returned as an
 empty string; in others as a single dot. */
 
-if (hosts->h_name[0] == 0 || hosts->h_name[0] == '.')
+if (hosts->h_name == NULL || hosts->h_name[0] == 0 || hosts->h_name[0] == '.')
   {
   HDEBUG(D_host_lookup) debug_printf("IP address lookup yielded an empty name: "
     "treated as non-existent host name\n");