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Re: Mass ipv6 lookups



On Fri, Sep 27 2002 at 20:37 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > There was proposition of AI_ADDRCONFIG flag that would do lookup
> > only for locally supported protocol. getaddrinfo in USAGI supports it
> > (by checking return value of socket(familly,...)) , in cvs version
> > of glibc there is no such support.
> 
> How about adding an option to /etc/resolv.conf ?

On SuSE /etc/nsswitch.conf allows the keyword dns6 instead of dns. At least
reverse IPv6 lookups are not done when dns6 is not specified, even if the
system is IPv6 enabled. What do you think about that approach?


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