On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:21:02PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Imho Debian's ctte should decide about this, and if they decide to have > sorted IPv4 addresses by default, somebody needs to take care that _ALL_ > programs using IPv4 are changed. Including browsers, IM clients and all > daemons which usually connect to addresses outside of the own computer.
Note that unless I am mistaken, this discussion is about getaddrinfo() only, not gethostbyname(). I'd assume quite a lot of software uses gethostbyname() still. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]