Re: current state of IPv6 support in Debian
Andrew Ruthven <andrew@etc.gen.nz> writes:
> More that I've discovered during the week:
>
> Avahi - Only searches for mdns via IPv6 if you've totally disabled IPv4
> in Avahi.
>
> mdns in nsswitch.conf - By default only enables mdns4, so that 4 has to
> be removed as well.
Thanks for that tip. OSX broadcasts mdns on ipv6 by default, which was
once a source of great puzzlement to me. Trying that change
now... fiddling with avahi...
To add to the broken on ipv6 list - the "finger" command lacks support
on ipv6.
It did have patches for ipv6 back in the early 00s, but the patches were
not carried forward. The Cfingerd daemon claims support for ipv6, but
lacking a client to test it with...
--
Dave Taht
Postcards from the Bleeding Edge (http://the-edge.blogspot.com)
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