Re: [v6ops] getaddrinfo glitch (Re: An Update to Happy Eyeballs)

David Schinazi <dschinazi@apple.com> Thu, 23 March 2017 17:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] getaddrinfo glitch (Re: An Update to Happy Eyeballs)
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Not much sympathy for the blog post for not reading the manual:
<<
    If the AI_NUMERICHOST bit is set, it indicates that hostname should be
    treated as a numeric string defining an IPv4 or IPv6 address and no name
    resolution should be attempted.
>>

Because of scope id, string to binary representation should always use
getaddrinfo() with AI_NUMERICHOST.

David


> On Mar 22, 2017, at 19:54, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:50 AM, 神明達哉 <jinmei@wide.ad.jp <mailto:jinmei@wide.ad.jp>> wrote:
> At the very least the blog should point to a specific poor
> implementation, and, say that even if it's not an inherent defect of
> getaddrinfo() itself but due to one bad implementation they should
> give up using it to be portable.
> 
> +1. A better approach for the blog post would have been to say "don't use AI_ADDRCONFIG if all you want to do is convert IP addresses to socket structures, because it doesn't work well on these platforms".
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