>getaddrinfo() performs an outer loop across all known address families- in
>this case IPv6 and IPv4 in that order, passing each request down to the
>resolver library's lower levels
this is not a protocol issue but purely an implementation issue.
resolver in *BSD does not do the above. quick-and-easy implementation
that calls gethostbyname() from within getaddrinfo() would behave
like you have described.
itojun
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