The following reply was made to PR pkg/31170; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
To: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/31170: firefox package build dumps core
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:20:43 +1000

 On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:45:21PM -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
 
 > Modifying patch-br to check for < 299000000 as below did the trick,
 > Firefox now works reliably when doing DNS lookups.  That answers my
 > general question I had out about this on current-users and port-i386 too.
 
 well, I guess that change needs find its way into pkgsrc and the
 latest branch..
 
 grant.