gethostby* users

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Fri Oct 12 18:10:15 GMT 2007


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Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Some parts of the protocol just don't
> allow for anything but IPv4, but where we can, things are being updated
> for Samba 3.2.  

I've pointed out at numerous occasions that getaddrinfo is not for IPv6
only.  You should always use getaddrinfo, even for IPv4-only situations.
  See

  http://udrepper.livejournal.com/16116.html

The gethostby* interfaces simply don't cut it in today's network anymore.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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