getent hosts prints IPv6, getent ahosts prints IPv4

Verbatim output from my terminal: $ getent hosts example.org 2001:500:88:200::10 example.org $ getent ahosts example.org 192.0.43.10 STREAM 43-10.any.icann.org 192.0.43.10 DGRAM 192.0.43.10 RAW I thought they were both (at the very least [ahosts](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/30318/what-is-in-the-output-of-getent-ahosts)) supposed to print both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Why are these printing different address types? $ uname -srvmpio Linux 3.2.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:17:36 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux **Edit**: Looks like it might be related to this bug report .