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



On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:15:03PM +0000, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> >  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.
> 
> The random order is exactly the point in the first!  Nameservers even
> return a different one as first specially to get such behaviour.

  Please argue that with Uli directly.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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