Hello, in the bug reports #580473 and #581552, for atftp and vtun, respectively, I have tried to bring attention to the fact that a new resolve ordering between IPv4 and IPv6 is in effect from Debian testing and onwards. The consequence is that gethostbyname() breaks every software that was written with IPv4 as reference: The first entry in a 'struct hostent' need no longer be IPv4. On the contrary, by default it will be IPv6 on any host with IPv6 active. My question is this: Is the IPv6 Team taking actions and measurements to investigate or counteract this decline in functionality. It is not clear to me how many packages will be affected, but I do fear there might be unexpected cases to be discovered. A conducted search seems not to be out of order. Best regards, Mats Erik Andersson, fil. dr 2459 41E9 C420 3F6D F68B 2E88 F768 4541 F25B 5D41 Subscriber to: debian-mentors, debian-devel-games, debian-perl, debian-ipv6, debian-qa
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