On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > Currently getaddrinfo picks the destination address in a round-robin
> > fashion.
>
> That's what could be done but isn't since I see little value. We
> currently return IPv6 address, if there are any and if they are wanted,
> first, then the IPv4 addresses. The order in which multiple IPv6 and/or
> IPv4 addresses are returned depends on the order the server returns it
> and eventually on artificial round-robin selection.
Oops, sorry. That's what I meant. The current behaviour is good.
Putting v6 first is regular practice and good.
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