In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Isaac To writes: >--pgp-sign-Multipart_Mon_Mar_20_09:24:45_2000-1 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Blundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Philip> The getaddrinfo() function should return *all* the matching > Philip> addresses as a linked list. It is up to the calling application > Philip> to decide the order in which it uses them. > > Philip> If you think that some addresses are missing, can you give more > Philip> details? > >What I mean is that I expect NS switch to do the following: > > for each "order" entry in host.conf (hosts, bind, etc) > for each protocol suite (IPv6, IPv4) > if the address is found > stop processing and return all info found. > >What I think it is doing is > > for each protocol suite (IPv6, IPv4) > for each "order" entry in host.conf (hosts, bind, etc) > if the address is found > stop processing and return all info found.
Neither of these is the case. The getaddrinfo function won't stop processing just because it has found an entry; it will continue searching other protocols and methods to see if there are more details. >I found this a big problem basically because my machine is within a local >network masquaraded by only a server with a dialup link. DNS queries is >very slow (it takes 1 minute to dialup my provider and have everything >settled before a DNS request can be served). If my /etc/hosts file already >contains the name/address pair of a host (basically meaning that it is a >host in the local network), I really don't want a query to the remote DNS >server. You should probably set up a local DNS server for this situation. p.
