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diff --git a/lib/portage/sync/getaddrinfo_validate.py b/lib/portage/sync/getaddrinfo_validate.py
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+# Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+import sys
+
+if sys.hexversion >= 0x3000000:
+	basestring = str
+
+def getaddrinfo_validate(addrinfos):
+	"""
+	Validate structures returned from getaddrinfo(),
+	since they may be corrupt, especially when python
+	has IPv6 support disabled (bug #340899).
+	"""
+	valid_addrinfos = []
+	for addrinfo in addrinfos:
+		try:
+			if len(addrinfo) != 5:
+				continue
+			if len(addrinfo[4]) < 2:
+				continue
+			if not isinstance(addrinfo[4][0], basestring):
+				continue
+		except TypeError:
+			continue
+
+		valid_addrinfos.append(addrinfo)
+
+	return valid_addrinfos