[rfc] enabling `sortlist' in libresolv?

[Ben Collins]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:33:28AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Is there any reason not to enable sortlist in libresolv (adding
> > -DRESOLVSORT to resolv/Makefile)? I have a Debian bug report that
> > requests to enable this feature, and I'm kind of wondering why it isn't
> > enabled by default.
> 
> It never was and in general is not wanted.  Beside, it is another poor
> DNS feature which doesn't work with IPv6.  Finally, the NSS gethost*()
> functions don't have the supporting code.

Good enough for me. Just needed to know if it was a legit request, and
it seems I can just close the bug.

Thanks,
  Ben

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