From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 8 8:32:47 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.disney.com (mail.disney.com [204.128.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3714637B403; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from pain10.corp.disney.com (root@pain10.corp.disney.com [153.7.110.100]) by mail.disney.com (Switch-2.0.1/Switch-2.0.1) with SMTP id f78FVle03840; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.30.50.1] by pain.corp.disney.com with ESMTP; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:33:29 -0700 Received: from plio.fan.fa.disney.com (plio.fan.fa.disney.com [153.7.118.2]) by pecos.fa.disney.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f78FZWs05982; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.fan.fa.disney.com (mercury.fan.fa.disney.com [153.7.119.1]) by plio.fan.fa.disney.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA19622; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com by mercury.fan.fa.disney.com; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:32:28 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Pirzyk Organization: Walt Disney Feature Animation To: Sheldon Hearn , Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net gethostbyname.3 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:32:28 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <55998.997269012@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: <55998.997269012@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080808322800.22597@snoopy> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.10 2001/05/17 23:38:49 Jim.Pirzyk Exp $ __o Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com ------------- pirzyk@freebsd.org _'\<,_ Senior Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Feature Animation (*)/ (*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message