From: Frederick Eaton <frederik@ofb.net>
To: overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: want to submit glibc bug but "account locked due to spam"
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 02:14:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210831091440.ymuc3dfcebzplwkm@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210831073249.apulzan5u6xh574r@localhost>
By the way, I no longer want to submit a bug about that last paragraph, but would still like an unlocked account at some point... Thanks!
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 12:32:49AM -0700, Frederick Eaton wrote:
>Dear Overseers,
>
>This page: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
>
>says "Account locked due to spam. Ref.: 6340 If you believe your account should be restored, please send email to overseers@sourceware.org explaining why."
>
>If you can explain why my account was locked in the first place, then it might be easier for me to subsequently attempt to explain why it should be restored.
>
>In any case I'm seeking help with a bug in glibc, where usually "getent hosts somehost.local" returns the correct IP, but occasionally it returns a random IP address from outside my local network. Seems like a security issue.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Frederick
>
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