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

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Thu, 23 March 2017 02:54 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:54:17 +0900
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] getaddrinfo glitch (Re: An Update to Happy Eyeballs)
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:50 AM, 神明達哉 <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".