Re: [Bug-wget] Revisiting AI_ADDRCONFIG

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> >> Note that you can disable IPv6 in Wget itself with --inet4-only or the
> >> equivalent .wgetrc command.  That will cause Wget to request AF_INET
> >> family from getaddrinfo and (presumably) avoid the spurious lookup that
> >> causes problems.
> > I could also build a patched wget with that flag set.
> 
> This part of my response was about how to avoid the waiting behavior in
> this particular case, even without rebuilding Wget.  My understanding of
> the cited text is that it claims this to be impossible without using
> AI_ADDRCONFIG, i.e. patching and rebuilding Wget.
> 
> The relevant question for adding AI_ADDRCONFIG would be: other than
> working around this resolver bug, what else is gained by using
> AI_ADDRCONFIG in the current Wget?

 FWIW, the configure script may be taught about the known-broken hosts WRT 
AI_ADDRCONFIG (it's the configure's role after all) and let the good ones 
benefit from it.  From own experience you also need to #define 
AI_ADDRCONFIG to 0 on hosts that are old/twisted enough not to support it 
at all.  Last time I checked Windows/MinGW used to fall into this category 
for example.

 If you are still uneasy about the breakage out there, then how about 
making it an AC_ARG_ENABLE feature with the default of "disable"?  The 
actual (quite straightforward) implementation would be left as an exercise 
for the requester.

  Maciej