Re: utility to call getaddrinfo(3)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <20130425145951.8934C604E7%jupiter.mumble.net@localhost>,
> Taylor R Campbell  <campbell+netbsd-tech-userlevel%mumble.net@localhost> wrote:
> > (I am not subscribed to this list, so please cc me in replies.)
> >
> > I'd like to import the following little utility to call getaddrinfo(3)
> > and print its output human- and awk-readably:
> >
> > http://www.NetBSD.org/~riastradh/tmp/getaddrinfo-20130425.tgz
> >
> > I often find that I want to see why applications are behaving the way
> > they are when dig(1) doesn't explain it, and as far as I know we have
> > no utility in base to answer this question, so I'd like to fill that
> > gap.
> >
> > Comments?  Objections?
>
> LGTM.


I agree, looks good as well as looks useful.



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