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Re: US mirror troubles



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.

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