Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:32:28 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net gethostbyname.3 Message-ID: <01080808322800.22597@snoopy> In-Reply-To: <55998.997269012@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <55998.997269012@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Wednesday 08 August 2001 04:10 am, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 04:05:47 MST, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > Modified files:
> > lib/libc/net gethostbyname.3
> > Log:
> > Urge the reader to start using getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3)
> > protocol-independant functions that don't use static memory area.
>
> And which _rock_!
Err, not quite. They do not use the DNS sortlist functionallity,
nor do they check to see what subnet the host and remote host
has in common to use that address first.
This would be the #1 reason I would not use them. See PR bin/27939.
- JimP
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