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



> > 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:

> 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

On 30.03.07 11:43, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> nice to know, which version of glibc (debian) do you have?

Oh, I think I found the guilty one: lwres. So I think I'll stop using
lwresd, whatever its advantages are...

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