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diff --git a/man5/gai.conf.5 b/man5/gai.conf.5 deleted file mode 100644 index 0b2c2e3..0000000 --- a/man5/gai.conf.5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,89 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. -.\" Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only -.\" -.TH gai.conf 5 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -gai.conf \- getaddrinfo(3) configuration file -.SH DESCRIPTION -A call to -.BR getaddrinfo (3) -might return multiple answers. -According to RFC\ 3484 these answers must be sorted so that -the answer with the highest success rate is first in the list. -The RFC provides an algorithm for the sorting. -The static rules are not always adequate, though. -For this reason, -the RFC also requires that system administrators should have the possibility -to dynamically change the sorting. -For the glibc implementation, this can be achieved with the -.I /etc/gai.conf -file. -.P -Each line in the configuration file consists of a keyword and its parameters. -White spaces in any place are ignored. -Lines starting with \[aq]#\[aq] are comments and are ignored. -.P -The keywords currently recognized are: -.TP -\fBlabel\fR \fInetmask\fR \fIprecedence\fR -The value is added to the label table used in the RFC\ 3484 sorting. -If any \fBlabel\fR definition is present in the configuration file, -the default table is not used. -All the label definitions -of the default table which are to be maintained have to be duplicated. -Following the keyword, -the line has to contain a network mask and a precedence value. -.TP -\fBprecedence\fR \fInetmask\fR \fIprecedence\fR -This keyword is similar to \fBlabel\fR, but instead the value is added -to the precedence table as specified in RFC\ 3484. -Once again, the -presence of a single \fBprecedence\fR line in the configuration file -causes the default table to not be used. -.TP -\fBreload\fR <\fByes\fR|\fBno\fR> -This keyword controls whether a process checks whether the configuration -file has been changed since the last time it was read. -If the value is -"\fByes\fR", the file is reread. -This might cause problems in multithreaded -applications and is generally a bad idea. -The default is "\fBno\fR". -.TP -\fBscopev4\fR \fImask\fR \fIvalue\fR -Add another rule to the RFC\ 3484 scope table for IPv4 address. -By default, the scope IDs described in section 3.2 in RFC\ 3438 are used. -Changing these defaults should hardly ever be necessary. -.SH FILES -\fI/etc/gai.conf\fR -.SH VERSIONS -The -.I gai.conf -.\" Added in 2006 -file is supported since glibc 2.5. -.SH EXAMPLES -The default table according to RFC\ 3484 would be specified with the -following configuration file: -.P -.in +4n -.EX -label ::1/128 0 -label ::/0 1 -label 2002::/16 2 -label ::/96 3 -label ::ffff:0:0/96 4 -precedence ::1/128 50 -precedence ::/0 40 -precedence 2002::/16 30 -precedence ::/96 20 -precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 10 -.EE -.in -.\" .SH AUTHOR -.\" Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> -.\" -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR getaddrinfo (3), -RFC\ 3484 |