[rfc] getaddrinfo oddity

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun Jan 7 23:29:00 GMT 2001


Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> I have a bug report due to the following "feature" of getaddrinfo(),
> which checks all possible ipv6 hosts before checking ipv4.

I'd like to have this changed as well.  Tell me as soon as you have
somebody who will completely rewrite the resolver.  Of course at the
same time several other major changes should go in.  In short: will
not change in the near future.  Once I have nothing else to do I might
start working on this.

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