On Dec 23, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote: > > I find this reasoning very peculiar. If an algorithm is inefficient and > > this causes problems then it is obviously buggy. > An algorithm is buggy if it does not match the specification. I see no Yet another very peculiar definition from you. > description about the lookup order wrt. multiple protocols, so the > behaviour is conformant to the documentation. While this may be true, it does not make it less than a bug. > Also note that resolv.conf(5) explicitely says that using search lines > "may be slow and will generate a lot of network traffic if the > servers for the listed domains are not local, and that queries will time > out if no server is available for one of the domains." Which is true, but does not mean that the current behaviour is correct and should not be changed. -- ciao, Marco
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