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diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers-7.6/06_fix_gethostbyname.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers-7.6/06_fix_gethostbyname.patch
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index 0000000000..725f4b5957
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tcp-wrappers/tcp-wrappers-7.6/06_fix_gethostbyname.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+* Mon Feb  5 2001 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
+- fix gethostbyname to work better with dot "." notation (#16949)
+
+--- tcp_wrappers_7.6/socket.c.fixgethostbyname  Fri Mar 21 13:27:25 1997
++++ tcp_wrappers_7.6/socket.c   Mon Feb  5 14:09:40 2001
+@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
+ char   *name;
+ {
+     char    dot_name[MAXHOSTNAMELEN + 1];
+-
++    struct hostent *hp;
++    
+     /*
+      * Don't append dots to unqualified names. Such names are likely to come
+      * from local hosts files or from NIS.
+@@ -61,8 +62,12 @@
+     if (strchr(name, '.') == 0 || strlen(name) >= MAXHOSTNAMELEN - 1) {
+        return (gethostbyname(name));
+     } else {
+-       sprintf(dot_name, "%s.", name);
+-       return (gethostbyname(dot_name));
++        sprintf(dot_name, "%s.", name);
++        hp = gethostbyname(dot_name);
++       if (hp)
++           return hp;
++       else
++           return (gethostbyname(name));
+     }
+ }
+