[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#898038: caused by host

[Trent Lloyd]

The script regex should be improved not to check in the case you specify 
(and thus this patch should applied).

However host should *always* timeout after 5 seconds regardless. The bug 
in host that causes it to never timeout appears to be a relatively 
recently introduced behavior and on the Ubuntu side we did not see this 
in 9.10.3 but we do see this in 9.11.3. This bug can also trigger with 
actual nameservers that do exist - so your patch won't fix all instances 
of the issue but obviously will help for some.

It's possible however that this entire script can be removed with the 
latest nss-mdns updates that have migrated to testing, as I believe that 
should ignore multi-label .local queries from memory (would have to be 
verified), e.g. queries for a.b.local will pass through mdns into the 
normal resolver stack.

- Trent