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On Tue, Jan 11, Philip Blundell wrote: > I think this code in nscd/hstcache.c is bogus: > > /* And the generated IPv6 addresses if necessary. */ > if (hst->h_length == INADDRSZ) > { > /* Generate the IPv6 addresses. */ > for (cnt = 0; cnt < h_addr_list_cnt; cp += IN6ADDRSZ, ++cnt) > map_v4v6_address (hst->h_addr_list[cnt], cp); > } > > IMHO, the NSS code should not be automatically mapping IPv4 addresses to IPv6, > and it should certainly not be happening in nscd. If a program wants both > IPv4 and IPv6 addresses it should pass PF_UNSPEC to getaddrinfo(). > > The current nscd behaviour is confusing to users (judging by the current > thread on libc-alpha and recent discussion elsewhere) and unhelpful on > IPv6-only hosts where a v4-mapped address is no use. > > Does anybody object to deleting this code? No. If it is wrong delete it. But ask Uli, he has written it. I think there is much more IPv6 code in the glibc which is bogus, for example in the NIS NSS modules. When I wrote the code I had copied it, but know when learning more about IPv6 I think it is wrong, too. One question about gethostbyname: If I use a hostname which has only IPv6 addresses in /etc/hosts, this call always fails. Is this correct ? And we use: if (_res.options & RES_USE_INET6) When will _res.options be set ? And how can a user change this ? Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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