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Subject: RFC ? gethostbyname - getnameinfo()
From: sam@mujo.be (Sam Hermans)

Hi,

The rcf howto pushed me into mailing you guys to measure reaction.=20

For a project i am working on i struggle a lot with the fact that =
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDRESS'] return policy is to prefer IPv6 over IPv4, =
and that gethostbyname prefers IPv4. It seems that the gethostbyname
 function as used in php is deprecated, and that getnameinfo should be =
used.

I think that in an age where we are finally getting the support of the =
*big* boys to start using IPv6 that php should be there and ready for =
them.

I have never contributed to php core before, but i'm more than happy to =
take the lead on this one.

Please let me know what you guys think, and thank you for your time.

Kind regards,
Sam Hermans