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Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 26 March 2019 09:35 UTC

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Subject: [Doh] gethostbyname?
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I have a silly question. In section 4, the draft goes to the API level to specify how to resolve a domain name. gethostbyname was deprecated in favor of getaddrinfo (and therefore IPv6 capability) in 1999 (RFC 2553), and is now found in all common OS's including Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOSX, and so on. A reference to gethostbyname in this draft comes across as ignorant at best, perhaps deliberately so.

What do we need to do to drag the authors into the current century?

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