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Re: sockets APIs extensions for Host Identity Protocol

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Wed, 09 May 2007 03:24 UTC

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> Something wrong with getaddrinfo()?  It certainly could use something
> HIPish under the hood, if some implementor decided to.
>   

getaddrinfo() is a disaster.  not only is it the most baroque call in
the entire sockets API, it also invites implementors to abuse its
semantics in numerous ways (for instance, looking up SRV records for
apps that weren't intended to use SRV records).


Keith

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