Ralph Seichter:
> Gentoo Linux's default /etc/nsswitch.conf contains "hosts: files dns",
> and the corresponding test program output looks like this:
>
> $ ./getaddrinfo monthu.horus-it.com
> Hostname: monthu.horus-it.com
> Addresses: 176.9.43.216
>
> When I change the setting to "hosts: dns files", the output changes to
> the following:
>
> $ ./getaddrinfo monthu.horus-it.com
> Hostname: monthu.horus-it.com
> Addresses: 2a01:4f8:150:54c1::b009:2bd8 176.9.43.216
>
> Isn't this an odd result with the given contents of /etc/hosts?
If you have ""hosts: files dns", and you have only one address in
/etc/hosts, you'll get only one address from getaddrinfo().
To support multiple IP addresses per name in /etc/hosts, specify
"multi on" in /etc/host.conf.
Given that we're in the early 21st century where a host can have
both IPv4 and IPv6, I think that "multi on" should be the default.
Wietse
