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Re: Weird resolver problem in Debian 8

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Ah, ok.
Thank you! I was rather confused for a while there.


Regards
Torbjorn



On 25/07/17 17:46, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Torbjorn Pettersson wrote:
>> Same result regardless of how many times I run it. Great,
>> but telnet, however, chooses one of the a records at "random".
> DNS sortlist works mostly for apps using outdated APIs.  telnet in
> stretch has long moved to the new APIs that are IPv6-enabled properly,
> and therefore they will use *all* A and AAAA records returned from the
> DNS lookup (so *dns* sort order doesn't matter since it will consider
> every result regardless of the order) and select which ones to try first
> based on several hardcoded rules *and* (in glibc's case) local
> configuration related to IPv6+IPv4 source address selection.
>
> Please configure your network preference ordering in /etc/gai.conf, and
> it should work for the majority of the stuff in Debian.  In fact, you
> can even configure ipv4 ranges (or all of it) to be prefered over some
> ipv6 ranges (or all of it), etc.
>

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Weird resolver problem in Debian 8 Torbjorn Pettersson <tobbe@strul.nu> - 2017-07-25 16:40 +0200
  Re: Weird resolver problem in Debian 8 Torbjorn Pettersson <tobbe@strul.nu> - 2017-07-25 16:50 +0200
  Re: Weird resolver problem in Debian 8 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-07-25 17:50 +0200
    Re: Weird resolver problem in Debian 8 Torbjörn Pettersson <tobbe@strul.nu> - 2017-07-25 19:30 +0200

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