On 27 Nov 2000, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> Here it did something else. In host_find_byname there was a
> check, wether HAVE_IPV6 is defined. If it is defined,
> gethostbyname2(host->name, af) is used, if it is not,
> gethostbyname(host->name) is used.
Aha. I keep forgetting that IPv6 is actually starting to get exercised
in the field...
> So, i guessed that gethostbyname2() failed, because it couldn't find a
> IPv6 address in /etc/hosts. I'm not familiar with IPv6, so I'm not
> sure, wether this is correct...after adding '::1 orion.sc orion'
> to my hosts, gethostbyname2() doesn't trigger a internet connection
> anymore. :-)
Yes, that sounds very likely.
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