Any way to bypass nameserver call in IPV6 ???

From: T.R.Bennett (bennett.tony_at_cnf.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: 26 Aug 2004 18:02:17 -0700

Apache and several other open source projects have converted
their code from using gethostbyname() to using getaddrinfo().

They call getaddrinfo with a hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC,
which means "get me both IPV4 as well as IPV6" addresses.

If I were using gethostbyname(), then I could prevent going
to the nameserver if I have the host in the /etc/hosts file
and had /etc/netsvc.conf contain "hosts= local,bind".

How do I create the same behaviour for IPV6 addresses ?

Additionally, I noted that even though I specify a FQDN in
the getaddrinfo() call, it tries both that name as well as
a name created by appending my domain name. For example:
    - I specify XXX.YYY.COM
    - getaddrinfo does IPV6 queries for:
            XXX.YYY.COM
            XXX.YYY.COM.YYY.COM
Is this correct behaviour???

Thanks,
-tony

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