Re: v6ops-v6onbydefault: link-locals and AI_ADDRCONFIG

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> > My argument is not that link-local addresses should be returned by
> > getaddrinfo() , it is that getaddrinfo() should be transparent.
> 
> Completely agree. The getaddrinfo() should be completely transparent from
> programmers' point of view. The local setup should be system/environment
> specific. I think the cleanest solution would be to setup the DNS
> resolution order locally by administrator: IPv6 address-resolution enable,
> and order of IPv4/IPv6 address-resolution. In my opinion, this should be
> included the resolver code and configurable from resolv.conf.

what you are describing is not transparent to applications that actually
need to know what is in DNS.  

Keith