On Mar 3, 2011, at 13:21 , Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 
> I guess I haven't explained well enough.
> 
> Net::LDAP passes IO::Socket::INET a hostname.  A hostname that is configured 
> for both IPv4 and IPv6.  The LDAP server is happily bound to both IPv4 and 
> IPV6.
> 
> If /etc/hosts is ordered in one way, the Perl inet_aton function correctly 
> resolves the IPv4 address.  If /etc/hosts is ordered another way, the Perl 
> inet_aton function fails to resolve the hostname *at all*.  This to me is a 
> bug.

Ah, yes. I agree that is a bug.

Graham.

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