Fix for Bug#52923 (Inadequate documentation of "Can't get hostname for your address" error).
The thing is that on some platforms (e.g. Mac OS X) sockaddr_in / sockaddr_in6 contain a non-standard field (sin_len / sin6_len), that must be set. The problem was that only standard fields were set, thus getnameinfo() returned EAI_SYSTEM instead of EAI_NONAME. The fix is to introduce configure-time checks (for GNU auto-tools and CMake) for those additional fields and to set them if they are available.
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