Work in progress with SRV in getaddrinfo() ?

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> Studying the process of introducing SRV RR openns the question :
> >> 
> >> "Is any work in progress installing SRV RR search in getaddrinfo()" ?
> 
> > 	This is the wrong place to put it.
> 
> > 	_http._tcp.example.com. SRV 0 0 80 www1.example.com.
> > 	_http._tcp.example.com. SRV 0 0 80 www2.example.com.
> 
> > 	would natually cause two calls to getaddrinfo()
> 
> > 		getaddrinfo(www1.example.com, 80, ...)
> > 		getaddrinfo(www2.example.com, 80, ...)
> 
> > 	or do you want getaddrinfo() to recurse?
> 
> Well, getaddrinfo() does return a list of structs today, so it could 
> return two ( or more) ipaddr/port combinations. No problem, at 
> least not with KAME/FreeBSD getaddrinfo()

	Regardless.  This is not the place to be disussing changes like
	this.  It is a change to a standard function call and as such
	it needs to be discussed in the relevent forum.

	Mark
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