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Re: [bug] nss resolver code doesn't stop at files lookup
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:08:52PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Uggh. Anyway to prevent this, or is it merely an extension/feature of
> > getaddrinfo?
>
> IPv6 addresses are searched if the users tells the function to do this.
But if hint is NULL, or hint.af_family == PF_UNSPEC, should getaddrinfo()
fail because it had trouble finding an ipv6 addr? That makes it mandatory
to have ipv6 support, just to use that function.
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