Re: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:23:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.2, Jan 2007: stable, but not rule 9
> Fedora Core 5, March 2005: stable
> Ubuntu 7.04, April 2007: rule 9
> Debian 3.1, sarge (June 2005): not stable
> OS X 10.4 Tiger (April 2005): not stable
> Windows 2003: stable, but not rule 9

So, to sum this up, we have 3 types:
1: stable, rule 9
2: not stable
3: stable, but not rule 9

So far, all those we know about that implment rule 9 are based on
glibc.

We've seen that FreeBSD is reported both as 2 and 3.
I think it's higly likely that all those OSs reported as 3 are
behind a caching nameserver that doesn't rotate and are really
type 2.

It would be nice if we could collect information about other OSs
too.  But I don't think it's really relevant.


Kurt