Re: ai_flags in calls to getaddrinfo

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> If they don't specify the protocol version, they get back either/both
>> ipv6/ipv4 now (depending on the system), don't they?
>
> On that system, I get only the IPv4 address if I don't use AI_ALL and
> AI_V4MAPPED.  If I do use the two flags, I get both IPv4 and IPv6
> addresses.

But the IPv6 addresses you get are presumably just the
ipv4-remapped-to-ipv6 addresses?  If so, that's another reason not to
use AI_V4MAPPED -- Robin explained in another message how those aren't
that useful.

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