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Re: most buggy function in glibc 8)
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >> >now with nscd running:
> >> Please try without nscd.
> >With nscd works - without nscd doesn't work.
>
> If by `works' you mean "automatically maps IPv4 addresses to IPv6 ones", you
> are mistaken.
works == returns two addrinfo structs. One with AF_INET6 family (ipv4 mapped
to ipv6) and second AF_INET family with native ipv4 addr.
doesn't work == returns one struct with AF_INET but with badly filled
sin_addr ;(
> I think that this behaviour is a bug in nscd; the resolver
> should not perform this translation automatically.
yes - it shouldn't (but IMHO there should be posibility to turn such
feature on).
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