>> if an implementation of gethostbyname() works that way, it's broken, and
>> it's breaking its applications. 
> Oops.
> I wanted to say connect-by-name (as before) rather than gethostbyname.
> (And I may have to learn more about socket APIs before pursuing the
> subject.)
> Apologies for this.

Actually, I assumed you meant getaddrinfo() rather than gethostbyname(),
since getaddrinfo() actually has arguments to specify the transport
protocol and port which would allow a broken implementation of the API
to do a SRV lookup.


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