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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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