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[Bug network/12377] getaddrinfo() should disregard link-local IPv6 addresses for AI_ADDRCONFIG purposes
- From: "psimerda at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:07:28 +0000
- Subject: [Bug network/12377] getaddrinfo() should disregard link-local IPv6 addresses for AI_ADDRCONFIG purposes
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- References: <bug-12377-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12377
--- Comment #11 from Pavel Åimerda <psimerda at redhat dot com> 2012-07-27 14:07:28 UTC ---
> This is a bug and it's caused exactly by the patch from this bugreport and by
> making AI_ADDRCONFIG default in getaddrinfo.
Forget this please and read it as:
This problem is caused by using AI_ADDRCONFIG by applications and by GLIBC's
bug that prevents even IP literals from working correctly. Please default to
AI_ADDRCONFIG. Please re-think the whole AI_ADDRCONFIG idea as it seems to be
an ugly and fragile hack.
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