From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 17 12:27:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tara.freenix.org (keltia.freenix.org [62.4.20.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF8B37B40B for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 12:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tara.freenix.org (Postfix/TLS, from userid 101) id 052F62ABB; Fri, 17 May 2002 21:27:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 21:27:44 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyname2 and AF_INET6 Message-ID: <20020517192744.GA89906@tara.freenix.org> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200205122016.g4CKGlUn048082@wartch.sapros.com> <1021273711.97354.74.camel@kokeb.ambesa.net> <3CDFF3C2.4DF47219@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CDFF3C2.4DF47219@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT K6-3D/266 & 2x PIII/800 SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Terry Lambert: > They are trying to be good network citizens by supporting IPv6. But they're doing it badly. gethostbyname2 (defined by RFC-2133) has been obsoleted by RFC-2553 and all applications SHOULD use getaddrinfo(3) or getnodebyname(3). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5.0-CURRENT #80: Sun Jun 4 22:44:19 CEST 2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message