Lowell.Hought@xxxxxxx writes: > Your are correct in that 8.0 is doing a AAAA request first. I am running > Red Hat version 8.0. The difference in the way 7.2 and 8.0 resolve the > host option has to be because of the change from gethostbyname to > getaddrinfo. Is there some way I can force my machine to do an A search > before a AAAA search? On a recent RH system, "man 5 resolver" suggests that putting "options inet6" into /etc/resolv.conf is what makes this happen ... if there is such an entry on your system, try removing it. RH 8.0 is a good ways back though, so read the local version of that man page before doing anything with that config file. I concur with Michael's previous suggestion that the best answer is to fix the clearly-broken DNS environment you're dealing with. It is no longer acceptable for anyone to be running nameservers that have not heard of IPv6 --- unless it's for a network that only contains clients that have not heard of IPv6, which yours evidently is not. Have a word with your local network admin. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq