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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:01:19 +0100
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arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote:
> The line:
>         fd = dial(data,"20",0,0);
> in ftpd.c may make a trouble when the server has two IPs.

I may be a bit out of context here but it must be remembered
that the IP addresses returned by the remote DNS are returned
in a random order, if we are talking unix BIND/named.

This was a design/implementation decision.

Does plan 9 allow you to specify the 'sort order' [a heuristic
in the client resolver library to get around these types
of problems]?