Please find attached the answer from upstream about this "problem".
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Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> In Debian we have added a new option to /etc/gai.conf (disabled by
> default) to ignore this rule for IPv4 addresses. Please find the patch
> below in case you are also unhappy about this behaviour.
No freaking way! The reason we have that sorting is to get consistency.
I won't add such an option to disturb it. Not to sort is completely,
utterly wrong since the order in which addresses are returned from the
service are more or less random.
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