From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1TOxXk-0008F3-Oi for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:22:16 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOxXi-0008D3-K3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:22:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOxXh-0001NI-GP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:22:14 -0400 Received: from e24smtp01.br.ibm.com ([32.104.18.85]:49302) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOxXh-0001N8-22 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:22:13 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e24smtp01.br.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:22:10 -0300 Received: from d24dlp01.br.ibm.com (9.18.248.204) by e24smtp01.br.ibm.com (10.172.0.143) with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:21:59 -0300 Received: from d24relay02.br.ibm.com (d24relay02.br.ibm.com [9.13.184.26]) by d24dlp01.br.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A303520054 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:21:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (d24av02.br.ibm.com [9.8.31.93]) by d24relay02.br.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q9ILKfWF21037338 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:20:41 -0300 Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q9ILLvCW030292 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:21:57 -0300 Received: from [9.8.11.108] ([9.8.11.108]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVin) with ESMTP id q9ILLvkM030283 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:21:57 -0300 Message-ID: <508072F5.6000908@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:21:57 -0300 From: Gustavo Luiz Duarte User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121009 Thunderbird/16.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Issue separate DNS queries for ipv4 and ipv6 References: <507E01FB.4050303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1350435969.7415.0.camel@watermelon.coderich.net> In-Reply-To: <1350435969.7415.0.camel@watermelon.coderich.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12101821-1524-0000-0000-0000041A3F44 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 32.104.18.85 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:22:15 -0000 Because IPv4 is much more prevalent at present, what means less unnecessary traffic and a slightly better performance on most of the cases. We can always change the default in the future (when IPv6 is more prevalent) as such "preference" is just an optimization. Also, I should soon have a patch to allow the user to configure this lookup behavior if he/she wants it. On 10/16/2012 10:06 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 21:55 -0300, Gustavo Luiz Duarte wrote: >> The default is DNS_OPTION_PREFER_IPV4. > > Why prefer IPv4 when most things prefer IPv6? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >