On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 03:19:29PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote: > I've noticed[*] that on NetBSD, getaddrinfo(3) does a resolver lookup even > if presented a numerical address. Is this on purpose? Would it have a > drawback if it would first try to inet_pton() the address? > On Linux, it seems to avoid the resolver lookup.
That's what AI_NUMERICHOST is for? It's not clear whether it should or should not parse the behavior, see comments in the code. Joerg
