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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 21:27:44 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gethostbyname2 and AF_INET6
Message-ID:  <20020517192744.GA89906@tara.freenix.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CDFF3C2.4DF47219@mindspring.com>
References:  <200205122016.g4CKGlUn048082@wartch.sapros.com> <1021273711.97354.74.camel@kokeb.ambesa.net> <3CDFF3C2.4DF47219@mindspring.com>

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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

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