On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:54:21AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote: > So perhaps our strategy for IPv6 address-to-name resolution should be: > > if the platform has "getnameinfo()", use it; > > otherwise, if the platform has "getipnodebyname()", use it; > > otherwise, use "gethostbyaddr()", and hope it handles AF_INET6.
I've checked in your patch, and left it just using "gethostbyaddr()", which is what we've always done; it works on enough other platforms that I suspect Sun won't remove support for that any time in the near future. I'll check it on the Solaris 8 machines at work.
