Re: [Exim] IP address lookups - opinions wanted

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Author: Sheldon Hearn
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] IP address lookups - opinions wanted
On (2003/10/17 14:03), Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> The getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3) interfaces are an absolute
> pleasure to work with, and would certainly render this whole issue moot,
> because they're defined to operate exactly the same on any implementing
> platform; if there are multiple matching records, you get a linked list
> containing all of them.


I stand corrected. Tony Finch pointed out in private mail that my
assertion above is false for getnameinfo(3), which is the bit that
counts in this discussion.

Time to crawl back into my hole. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.