backuppc and AAAA dns records.

Robin David Hammond <[email protected]>
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Looking at the docs it seems that backuppc is using perl's
gethostbyname() function. This function flatly fails to check for AAAA
records much less prefer them to A records.

I'd like the groups opinion should I consider a patch that uses a better
DNS call or focus effort of getting perl fixed?



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