Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:31:43 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net gethostbyname.3 Message-ID: <01080809314302.22597@snoopy> In-Reply-To: <20010808191242.C10516@sunbay.com> References: <55998.997269012@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <01080808322800.22597@snoopy> <20010808191242.C10516@sunbay.com>
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On Wednesday 08 August 2001 09:12 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:32:28AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is the implementation bug that should ideally be fixed. But
> this does not mean that this interface is bad, because DNS is one
I was just commenting on that the function "_rock_"s. I agree that
it should be fixed (and I have taken a cursory (sp?) look into it,
but I did not see any simple fix).
- JimP
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