Thanks for the response and for submitting the patch...
The sad thing is it looks like even Windows 98 handles this properly
when RedHat doesn't. Kind of embarassing really.
- Matt
John DiMarco wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
> >This Redhat choice is wrong for large networks in production
> >environments. It essentially makes Linux clients inappropriate for use
> >in large enterprises with systems that have multiple interfaces. It also
> >makes RedHat effectively incompatible by default with other Unixes such
> >as Sun and IRIX which do provide this functionality (Suns even sort by
> >local interfaces by default period).
>
> I agree. Last June, I complained about this problem to Redhat, without
> positive results. The issue is that glibc doesn't (but should) put a local
> address first in the returned result. It has the sortlist feature which can
> be used as a workaround, but Redhat doesn't trust the sortlist feature
> for reasons that were never made clear to me, and so they compiled it out.
>
> I added a patch to glibc (2.1.1pre3) to do address sorting (i.e. "reorder
> on"), and submitted it to the glibc people in July. In september, Andreas
> Jaeger rewrote my changes and submitted it for inclusion in the glibc code
> base. He sent me a note in November indicating it had been accepted by the
> glibc maintainer and would make it into the next version of glibc. However,
> according to the CVS log for resolv/res_hconf.c, it didn't make it into glibc
> 2.1.3, but it's in the latest development release (2.1.91).
>
> In the meanwhile, though, RedHat really ought to turn on sortlist. People
> who need RedHat to behave properly in this case don't have any recourse
> at the moment, other than using a different distribution.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
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