Re: getaddrinfo: DNS round robin vs RFC3484 s6 rule 9, for etch

[Wolf Wiegand <wolf@kondancemilch.de>]

Hi,

Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> > ~/> uname -sr
> > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
> > ~/> ping -c 1 ftp.us.debian.org | grep PING
> > PING ftp.us.debian.org (204.152.191.7): 56 data bytes
> > ~/> ping -c 1 ftp.us.debian.org | grep PING
> > PING ftp.us.debian.org (35.9.37.225): 56 data bytes
> 
>   rather use sth similar than:
> 
> $ getent ahosts ftp.us.debian.org
> 
>   I'm not sure if BSDs know about ahost though.

The machine I have access to doesn't support ahosts. getent host 
returns different addresses for ftp.us.debian.org on subsequent calls.

Cheers,

Wolf

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