gethostby* users

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 23:10 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Chris Adams wrote:
> > I don't see gethostby* listed as deprecated or obsolete by any standard
> > group or documentation.
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> Then you haven't even tried looking.  The functions are obsolete in the
> current Unix spec and will be gone in the next revision which we will
> finish next year.

Ulrich, some people claim that glibc's getaddrinfo breaks IPv4 DNS round
robin as it reorders also IPv4 address, can you comment on this? In some
cases it is important.

Simo.