Hello!

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:01:17PM +0200, Piotr Sikora wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >Note well: listen with hostname always uses *one* address returned
> >by hostname lookup, the first one returned by gethostbyname(). It
> >doesn't make sense to attempt to use it with hostname which
> >resolves to multiple addresses.
>
> But is that correct behavior? Shouldn't nginx listen on all of them?

I've just outlined how it works. If you feel brave enough - you
may try to produce patch to which changes "listen" to use all
addresses hostname resolves to. But I suspect it's size will be
bigger than the problem deserves.

> >I believe correct solution would be to make
> >
> > listen example.com;
> >
> >to use ipv6 address if no ipv4 addresses were found.
>
> Why not on both?

Just to preserve "how it works".

Maxim Dounin

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