Use getaddrinfo instead of gethostbyname for thread safety #28
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See dmlc/xgboost#1394 for context.
I'm assuming that Rabit is intended to support running multiple Rabit threads. This is useful with xgboost4j-spark since Spark usually uses many cores per executor.
I'm surprised this issue hasn't shown up before.