From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Glenn Golden <gdg@zplane.com>
Cc: libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: getent ahostsv4 seems to interact with network interface addressing
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:58:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cywnxw1d.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZUg2y16Qf1XUrcJn@huh.zplane.com> (Glenn Golden's message of "Sun, 5 Nov 2023 17:43:55 -0700")
* Glenn Golden:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> [2023-11-05 21:10:50 +0100]:
>> By default, getent uses AI_ADDRCONFIG under the covers, and what you
>> see is the expected behavior of that getaddrinfo option. Recent glibc
>> versions have a getent option that switches of AI_ADDRCONFIG:
>>
>> -A, --no-addrconfig do not filter out unsupported IPv4/IPv6 addresses
>> (with ahosts*)
>
> Which getent.1 man page is the above excerpted from? It doesn't appear in
> the latest man-pages release (6.05.01-1 pkg on Arch) and it's also not
> in the git man-pages tree at kernel.org:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/man1/getent.1
>
> Am I looking in the wrong place for latest man pages?
Sorry, it's just --help output. I think we haven't updated the
manpages yet.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-06 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-04 13:23 Glenn Golden
2023-11-05 20:10 ` Florian Weimer
2023-11-06 0:43 ` Glenn Golden
2023-11-06 5:58 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
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