Commit b1233c7e authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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#45. libcurl built to support ipv6 uses getaddrinfo() to resolve host names. 

   getaddrinfo() sorts the response list

This isn't a libcurl bug since this is how getaddrinfo() is *supposed* to work!
Apparently you deal with this using the /etc/gai.conf file.
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  function will return prematurely and will confuse the rest of the HTTP

  protocol code. This should be very rare.



45. libcurl built to support ipv6 uses getaddrinfo() to resolve host names.

  getaddrinfo() sorts the response list which effectively kills how libcurl

  deals with round-robin DNS entries. All details:

    http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-07/0168.html

  initial suggested function to use for randomizing the response:

    http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-07/0178.html



43. There seems to be a problem when connecting to the Microsoft telnet server.

  http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1720605