Re: IPv6 in Debian
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:53:06PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:33:10PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:
> > I've never actually had a problem on ipv4-only hosts. It would be nice
> > if you could describe your problems in more detail.
>
> The typical problem, which is what Tomas was pointing at with AAAA
> request being done before A requests, is that if the ipv6 module is
> loaded and you are in a ipv4-only environment, you still get a link
> local ipv6 address, and applications (glibc, actually) think (quite
> rightfully, from their PoV) that you are using ipv6.
It seems that even having lo ::1 is enough for glibc to think that you
ipv6 connectivity, which clearly looks wrong to me.
Kurt
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