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Re: problems with getaddrinfo() and _res.options
>> This will break all existing dual-stack applications. Standard
>> practice up until now has been to use AF_UNSPEC and expect to get
>> back both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. (I think this is true for all
>> platforms, not just Linux.)
>
>Why, it makes no sense. If you can handle both, IPv4 and IPv6, why
>should you get the mapped IPv4 address back? I just tried it on
>Solaris 8. You only get the IPv4 address.
Sorry, I misunderstood your first message. (I thought you were talking about
native IPv6 addresses, not IPv4-mapped ones.) Please ignore what I wrote.
p.