Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

[Carel Fellinger <carel.fellinger@chello.nl>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
...
> With the help of the IPv6 developer list I finally found the real 
> solution: Woody versions of some Debian packages, like telnet, 
> and, it seems, exim, *require* IPv6 addresses for your local 
> machines (including localhost!) in /etc/hosts, or they will call 
> your ISP to ask for them. And of course your ISP's nameservers 
> don't have them either. Specifying local lookup ("files") in 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf does not help.

Thanks for clearing this up, but...
 
> So if your /etc/hosts is, for instance:
,,,
> 192.168.1.3     venus.my.home    venus
> 
> Then at the end of the file you have to add
...
> ::FFFF:192.168.1.3     venus.my.home    venus

...now there is one name with to addresses, how will other programs react
to that. e.g. dnsmasq?

-- 
groetjes, carel