Without further ado, the following was found: Issue: No "in succession" here on purpose? "When no I<key> is provided, use B<sethostent>(3), B<gethostent>(3), and " "B<endhostent>(3) to enumerate the hosts database. When one or more I<key> " "arguments are provided, pass each I<key> to B<gethostbyaddr>(3) or " "B<gethostbyname2>(3), depending on whether a call to B<inet_pton>(3) " "indicates that the I<key> is an IPv6 or IPv4 address or not, and display the " "result." … and in many other paragraphs (I can provide you the full list). Last time you said, that this is under review with glibc - are there any results on this?