This is what Sun does by default. It would be fine for this not to be
the default if the "sortlist" option were recognized. Though the default
sorting (per the RFC you sent) isn't necessarily in RedHat's hands, the
setting of the sortlist compile flag for the resolver libraries.
I would ideally like the RFC suggestion to be followed but would be
happy if "sortlist" were. Without it RedHat behaves in a braindead
fashion and it's a major issue in a large network like ours.
- Matt
PS: Again, thanks for the quick responses.
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>
> I could be wrong, but I understood that there was a string
> suggestion in hosts-requirements that if you share a network
> with the host you want to talk to then an interface on that
> network will be used.
>
> rfc-1123 6.1.3.4:
>
> When the host name-to-address function encounters a host
> with multiple addresses, it SHOULD rank or sort the
> addresses using knowledge of the immediately connected
> network number(s) and any other applicable performance or
> history information.
>
> Ok, it is only a SHOULD not a MUST but clearly this is the
> Right Thing. Of course this isn't RH's fault if glibc does
> the Wrong Thing (TM).
>
> -- Jon
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