20 Dec 2013 01:06, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Kees van Eeten:
MvdV> Hello Kees,
MvdV> On Tuesday December 17 2013 13:23, you wrote to Nicholas Boel: KE>> There should not be any ip adresses in the nodelist, only hostnames.
just plain stupid to put ip in nodelist when we nearly all going dual stacked
MvdV> while I would agree that hos names are preferred, technically there MvdV> is nothing wrong with literal IP addesses. FTS-5000 and FTS-5001 MvdV> allow them.
likewise there was fax modems on same telephone numbers in old days, when the caller wanted a modem :)
KE>> Last year you had the proper DNS setup with your free DNS provider. KE>> If you cannot have an "A" and an "AAAA" record for the same hostname, KE>> you have chosen a lame service.
MvdV> Indeed.
it all depends on dns, and it should stay there, if caller want to change rules of gai.conf he might choice his route to destination, but destination should provide accurate info in dns, not in nodelist
other ways of sorting it out will be hard to debug why it does not work
Regards Benny
... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)
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