From: Dmitry Samersoff <dms@samersoff.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
Alexander Scherbatiy <alexander.scherbatiy@bell-sw.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] getaddrinfo(3) with AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL flags
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:21:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bd97d8a-ff78-27a0-8231-ffd0357218eb@samersoff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200730160012.GT6949@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Hello Rich,
I'm not sure that mapping of INADDR_ANY (0.0.0.0) and return of
::ffff:0.0.0.0' has any sense.
Should it be filtered out on musl level?
-Dmitry
On 30.07.2020 19:00, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 06:20:36PM +0300, Alexander Scherbatiy wrote:
>>
>> glibc getaddrinfo(3) function uses /etc/gai.conf file to sort
>> addrinfo results.
>> does musl getaddrinfo(3) implementations allows to configure the
>> results order?
>
> Presently no, and there doesn't seem to have been a lot of demand for
> it, though there was at least one other request. IIRC I asked about
> the motivation since normally the default sorting should do the right
> thing, and I believe it was for the sake of overriding for some sites
> with broken IPv6 connectivity. If you have other use cases in mind it
> would be good to mention them to help document that this is a feature
> that makes sense to consider adding.
>
> Rich
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-31 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-27 10:17 Alexander Scherbatiy
2020-02-27 14:45 ` Rich Felker
2020-07-30 15:20 ` Alexander Scherbatiy
2020-07-30 16:00 ` Rich Felker
2020-07-31 16:21 ` Dmitry Samersoff [this message]
2020-07-31 19:19 ` Rich Felker
2020-08-03 8:15 ` Dmitry Samersoff
2020-08-03 13:37 ` Rich Felker
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