Re: addr sel API?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:38:46 +0300, Aleksi Suhonen <Aleksi.Suhonen at tut.fi>
wrote:
> The point I'm trying to make is that basic address selection decisions
> can happen in many places (kernel, library, server code, client code)
> and there's a need for network administrators to be able to influence
> those decisions. If some new protocol for this purpose is created or if
> some new address selection methods are defined, all the thousands of
> server and client software may potentially need to be rewritten to
> support it.

Lets not over-dramatize the situation... Only agents that cannot use
getaddrinfo() yet still need some destination addresses prioritizing are
potentially affected. In most cases, you can use getaddrinfo(). And when
not, you do not necessarily want to use source address selection.

I fully agree that there is a problem, but it's not _that_ bad.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont