Re: IPv6 problem of an IPv4 user (part 2)
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> > Previously Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> >> A bug, a feature, or something I omitted doing when upgrading
> >> from potato to woody?
>
> > A feature, it tries to do telnet over ipv6 first. You can
> > prevent the DNS lookup by sticking an ipv6 address in
> > /etc/hosts.
> > Wichert.
>
> Thanks! But..
>
> 1) How? What does the IPv6 version of my IPv4 local addresses look
> like?
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> 2) Isn't this a rather doubtful feature? And shouldn't the upgrade
> process have taken care of this automatically? In order to
> prevent other naïve users, like me, from causing "LAN leakage"
> as a result of this feature?
`naive' is without trema in english, and well... it *is* documented, I seem
to recall. Even better, I seem to remember having encountered a mention of
it during one of my upgrades...
Doei, Arthur.
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