In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:25:13 +0200), Michael Bergbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> Sorry for asking a potentially stupid question, but how do you ask the > resolver to query AAAA records or not to do it? I e.g. see my telnet > program doing AAAA-Queries (watched with a sniffer) and in the sources, I > can only see gethostbyname() calls. > > Is there somewhere a switch to turn on/off looking up AAAA records? > Perhaps Ramon is just looking for something like that. I think that most of them uses getaddrinfo(). it usually lookups both "AAAA" and "A". some have -4 option to lookup only "A". Well... AI_ADDRCONFIG flag for getaddrinfo() could be an answer, but it is not implemented yet in glibc. --yoshfuji
