Hi,
I've now filed bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435646
So hopefully the libc6 maintainer will take a look at this, and we can
get this patch included, which should make ipv6 behave essentially
invisbly unless it is configured.
Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 22:02 +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
>
> Maybe I misread it though - I'm certainly no libc guru. Anyone else
> care to comment on the exact effects? This seems to be the crux of it
> here:
>
> +++ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/check_pf.c 2007-04-02 21:39:46.000000000 +0200
> @@ -130,7 +130,10 @@
> *seen_ipv4 = true;
> break;
> case AF_INET6:
> - *seen_ipv6 = true;
> + if (ifam->ifa_scope < RT_SCOPE_LINK)
> + {
> + *seen_ipv6 = true;
> + }
>
> if (ifam->ifa_flags & (IFA_F_DEPRECATED
> | IFA_F_TEMPORARY
>
>
> It seems to me that will need a globally scoped address to be assigned
> before it will consider that IPv6 is a happening thing and start sending
> (or waiting on) AAAA lookups.
>
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