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#45. libcurl built to support ipv6 uses getaddrinfo() to resolve host names.

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getaddrinfo() sorts the response list

This isn't a libcurl bug since this is how getaddrinfo() is *supposed* to work!
Apparently you deal with this using the /etc/gai.conf file.
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@ -59,13 +59,6 @@ may have been fixed since this was written!
function will return prematurely and will confuse the rest of the HTTP
protocol code. This should be very rare.
45. libcurl built to support ipv6 uses getaddrinfo() to resolve host names.
getaddrinfo() sorts the response list which effectively kills how libcurl
deals with round-robin DNS entries. All details:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-07/0168.html
initial suggested function to use for randomizing the response:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-07/0178.html
43. There seems to be a problem when connecting to the Microsoft telnet server.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1720605