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nss_files and IPv6 localhost


  Hi,

  on Nov 20 a change in nss/nss_files/files-hosts.c:LINE_PARSER was
introduced to treat ::1 the same way as 127.0.0.1. I didn't find this
mandated by any standard (I might have missed it), so I wonder what's
the reasoning behind this change? A lot of Linux systems have

	127.0.0.1	localhost
	::1	localhost

in their /etc/hosts (though most have ip6-localhost for ::1 instead).
Then, this can break things subtly as gethostbyname() (gethostbyname2(),
getaddrinfo(), ...) will return duplicate 127.0.0.1 in h_addr_list[] and
some applications do not explect duplicate entries in this array (e.g.
OpenLDAP).

  Why was this behaviour introduced? Should the new "non-legacy" setup
be to have only ::1 for localhost in /etc/hosts? Or shall we just call
applications that rely on h_addr_list[] not having duplicate entries
"broken"?

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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