From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: remove host, host_v4 and host_v6; rename host_dns -> host
To: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 18:49:42 +0200

On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 06:35:02PM +0200, Omar Polo wrote:
> This is an attempt at simplifying how host() works.  host() is used in
> the configuration file via get_addrs() to prepare a struct address
> after a "listen on" directive
> 
> The current code first tries to resolve it as an ipv4 address via
> inet_pton(), then as an ipv6 address using getaddrinfo() with
> AI_NUMERICHOST, then as an interface name and finally as a name to
> resolve via getaddrinfo() again.
> 
> Instead, scratch host(), host_v4() and host_v6() and rename host_dns()
> to host().  It preserve the lookup via interface name, and then uses
> getaddrinfo() only once wich already knows how to deal with IPv4/v6
> literals and resolving addresses too.
> 
> ok?

Makes sense to me, ok.