On 9/15/07, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [spam: Check http://www.sixxs.net/misc/toys/ for an IPv6 Toy Gallery :)] > > Somewhat long, hopefully useful content follows... > > Barrett Lyon wrote: > [..]
[ clip ] > Of course when there is only a A or AAAA only that protocol will be > used. All applications are supposed to use getaddrinfo() which sorts > these addresses per the above specification, the app should then > connect() to them in order, fail/timeout and try the next one till it Since when is a timeout on the Internet ok? Haven't we moved beyond that? This is a controllable timeout. We don't have to do it, which is the point. What's the right way to do this? Thank you, and thank you Barret for starting the thread. :-) -M<
