[erlang-questions] inet_res:

[Ignatios Souvatzis]

Hi,

while browsing inet_res.erl (from R11B-5 and R12B-0), I found it still 
uses ip6.int; to be precise:

gethostbyaddr_tm() calls res_gethostbyaddr(dn_ip6_int(...)) which in
turn translates the address to the DNS key using 

dn_ip6_int(A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H) ->
    dnib(H) ++ dnib(G) ++ dnib(F) ++ dnib(E) ++ 
	    dnib(D) ++ dnib(C) ++ dnib(B) ++ dnib(A) ++ "IP6.INT".

It should instead call a function (for niceness called dn_ip6_arpa)
that adds "IP6.ARPA" at the end, although the safe coding method would
be to not rename dn_ip6_int(), I guess.

"IP6.INT" was deprecated with RFC3152 (BCP 49) in August 2001 and
removed with RFC 3596 in October 2003.

(This might explain why my quick inet_res tests in the shell weren't as
 successful as I wished - I didn't actually fix inet_res.erl yet and test
 the fix.)

Regards,
	-is