Bug#438179: [drepper@redhat.com: Re: [PATCH] getaddrinfo(): option to not sort IPv4 addresses]

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Please find attached the answer from upstream about this "problem".

-- 
  .''`.  Aurelien Jarno	            | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
 : :' :  Debian developer           | Electrical Engineer
 `. `'   aurel32@debian.org         | aurelien@aurel32.net
   `-    people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net

--- Begin Message ---

• To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
• Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
• Subject: Re: [PATCH] getaddrinfo(): option to not sort IPv4 addresses
• From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
• Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:41:21 -0700
• Message-id: <46C71321.2000303@redhat.com>
• In-reply-to: <20070816212421.GA30105@amd64.aurel32.net>
• References: <20070816212421.GA30105@amd64.aurel32.net>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> In Debian we have added a new option to /etc/gai.conf (disabled by
> default) to ignore this rule for IPv4 addresses. Please find the patch
> below in case you are also unhappy about this behaviour.

No freaking way!  The reason we have that sorting is to get consistency.
 I won't add such an option to disturb it.  Not to sort is completely,
utterly wrong since the order in which addresses are returned from the
service are more or less random.

- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGxxMh2ijCOnn/RHQRAgujAKCuIDfhu7Qq1oR/wZNGhsI99mD+ewCeNNpS
p7rzjjU7ByHl0bjQ2u/p05M=
=MJ4r
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--- End Message ---