[Bug network/19582] Deprecate RES_USE_INET6

fweimer at redhat dot com sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Tue May 10 08:21:00 GMT 2016


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19582

--- Comment #1 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
RES_USE_INET6 is described in RFC 2133 (April 1997), and was explicitly removed
in RFC 2553 (March 1999).  The RFC 2133 behavior is to return IPv6 addresses
for gethostbyname if RES_USE_INET6 is set.

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