Re: broken IPv6 code
In article <20010108092609.F13627@eye-net.com.au> (at Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:26:09 +1100), csmall@eye-net.com.au (Craig Small) says:
> > because getipnodebyname() is obsolete function. It's not supported in glibc 2.2
> > and afaik XNET specs treat it as obsolete, too.
>
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> So that means the "right" way of doing hostname->IP lookups is with
> getaddrinfo() with all the lack of functionality as mentioned?
Use getaddrinfo(). getipnodebyname() has been deprecated for
lack of "scope". New flag for getaddrinfo(), AI_ADDRCONFIG,
will be defined in the successor of RFC2553.
See draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis-01.txt.
Note: USAGI glibc's have this functionality.
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