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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


  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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