21 Sep
2007
21 Sep
'07
1:54 a.m.
On 9/15/07, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
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Barrett Lyon wrote: [..]
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Of course when there is only a A or AAAA only that protocol will be used. All applications are supposed to use getaddrinfo() which sorts these addresses per the above specification, the app should then connect() to them in order, fail/timeout and try the next one till it
Since when is a timeout on the Internet ok? Haven't we moved beyond that? This is a controllable timeout. We don't have to do it, which is the point. What's the right way to do this? Thank you, and thank you Barret for starting the thread. :-) -M<