Re: US mirror troubles
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> 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.
That is much better :-) Still, lots of gethostbyname()->getaddrinfo()
conversions were done blindly and the ammount of bugs re. DNS round-robin
this will expose is not funny.
Is there any advantage for that default in Debian? Anyone who cares about
network proximity on round-robin IPv4 already knows to pick one host and
to stop using the round-robin names.
We still ship ECN disabled for a reason, and unlike ECN enabled by default
everywhere (which would actually help a lot the network), breaking IPv4
round-robin in buggy applications will only make things worse (as our
default is NOT going to find out the closest IPv4 host automatically).
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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