Subject: Re: release and A instead of AAAA?

Re: release and A instead of AAAA?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:29:39 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

>> Can we really justify that as anything else than a hack?
>
> This is normally what you want, yes; it's hard to get the interaction
> between AAAA/A and search path right in the application (plus most
> applications should not have to reimplement this logic over and over again).
> Doesn't glibc do the same?

The standard gethostbyname() function doesn't have a family argument so we
can't really compare with how that works in POSIX/libc.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2010-12-08