On Jul 17, 2014, at 19:22, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Thanks for these details. I'll file a bug and mull it over some more. RFC 6762 makes it clear that what the package is currently doing is wrong. Given that Debian's libc knows nothing about mdns on its own, I think I'll need to parse resolv.conf (that's what libc-ares does).
You might also want to take a look at [1] which suggests that when doing SRV lookups for URLs they should be done regardless of whether or not a port number is present (which then eliminates the RFC 3986 issue the current SRV lookup code has). It's only a draft (and expired now and looks like it received a rather chilly reception from some), but I haven't noticed anything else that addresses what the patch code is trying to do. The thread at [2] is related to what the patch is trying to do.
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ohta-urlsrv [2] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/pcp/current/msg01727.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html