Re: getaddrinfo address ordering

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@wide.ad.jp>]

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In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211271823380.1181-100000@netcore.fi> (at Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:31:46 +0200 (EET)), Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> says:

> > It will currently always fall back to v4 if one wrote it correctly:
> >  - tries AAAA (if dns returned it)
> >  - tries A (if dns returned it)
> 
> Sure.. but in this case www.google.com will not have AAAA records in,
> well, about 5-10 years.  They have no incentive to do so, _at all_ --
> quite the contrary -- as their v4-enabled users would get worse service.

This problem is NOT only ipv6 and/or getaddrinfo thing at all.
If one of IPv4 address on a DNS for a single FQDN were down, 
what would be happened?

(You might have recognized similar problem with h_addr_list[] in 
struct hostent{} :-))

What should be to blame is poor programming of application.

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Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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