On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 10:25 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:50:38PM -0400, Stan Bubrouski wrote:
> First of all I'm sick of this attitude Warren. I wasn't asking YOU to
> remove IPv6 from the kernel. My question was if I remove it, am I going
> to face problems...
gftp might break. There was a bug with gftp and ipv6 aware sites that
Im not sure was fixed by gftp updates, by the fact with have ipv6 or
in both.
This may have been 'fixed' by the fact that glibc-2.3.3 has a proper
implementation of RFC3484 and will actually return the addresses in
order of the probability of being able to connect to them -- in
particular, if there's an IPv6 global address and an IPv4 address in the
RRset and you don't have a global IPv6 address of your own, it should
return the IPv6 address of the host you're looking up last in the list.
However, if gftp isn't bothering to try _all_ the addresses it's given,
but instead is claiming failure when the first one isn't contactable, it
still wants fixing. Evolution has the same problem.
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dwmw2