Re: Again ... Re: security.debian.org

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>]

> Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> >However this does not _seem_ to be enough, and I guess it's due to 
> >"feature"
> >of glibc, that sorts IP addresses from numerically lowest one to 
> >numerically
> >highest one (so it spoils attempts for DNS load-balancing), so if any 
> >program
> >is the order of addresses returned via gethostbyname() or getnameinfo(), it
> >tries them always in the following order:
> >
> >% getent hosts security.debian.org
> >128.101.240.212 security.debian.org
> >212.211.132.32  security.debian.org
> >212.211.132.250 security.debian.org

On 30.03.07 11:06, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> It doesn't do that:
> 
> rgevaert@pimp:~$ getent hosts security.debian.org
> 212.211.132.250 security.debian.org
> 128.101.240.212 security.debian.org
> 212.211.132.32  security.debian.org
> rgevaert@pimp:~$ getent hosts security.debian.org
> 128.101.240.212 security.debian.org
> 212.211.132.32  security.debian.org
> 212.211.132.250 security.debian.org

nice to know, which version of glibc (debian) do you have?
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