Dropbear

Day: June 13, 2010

  • Does your program use gethostbyname() ?

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    There has been some discussion on the Debian IPv6 list about how the function gethostbyname() has changed.  The manual page says this function is obsolete and with good reason. A new feature of the function is that if a hostname has both IPv4 and IPv6 entries then the order of the return values is not…