From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in resolv.conf
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:17:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131130031744.GM24286@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL3m8eCDrpPdDD3L1fFmV=tsx2dyKDYnGi6nCdW=M_Z+Z5hZQw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 08:18:20PM -0500, Strake wrote:
> On 29/11/2013, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > What I think would be the correct behavior is noting whether any v6
> > addresses are seen, and if so, converting the v4 addresses to
> > v4-mapped v6 addresses and using IPv6 for all communication. Does this
> > sound reasonable?
>
> It would be simpler to just always convert to v6.
But that would mean complete unconditional DNS failure on systems
lacking IPv6.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-30 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-29 10:09 orc
2013-11-29 17:44 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 0:37 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 1:18 ` Strake
2013-11-30 3:17 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2013-11-30 3:45 ` Strake
2013-11-30 3:51 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 3:59 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 9:16 ` Justin Cormack
2013-11-30 17:01 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 17:23 ` Justin Cormack
2013-11-30 17:30 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 17:33 ` Rob
2013-11-30 17:42 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 17:43 ` Justin Cormack
2013-11-30 18:52 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 9:13 ` Laurent Bercot
2013-11-30 10:18 ` John Spencer
2013-11-30 16:53 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-30 15:27 ` orc
2013-12-03 2:11 ` Rich Felker
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