RE: dual stack & IPv6 on by default

["Bound, Jim" <Jim.Bound@hp.com>]

Folks,

Mozilla is going to fix this.  Part of the problem was we took so long
getting rfc 2553 updated to new RFC (its in the RFC editor queue now)
they used Richard Stevens old program model.   This will be updated to
getaddrinfo and I agree with Itojun.  Now as usual we await release
updates :--) We also updated the API after this code base that is must
specify AI_MAPPED to get both v4 and v6.

Regards,
/jim

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: itojun@iijlab.net [mailto:itojun@iijlab.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:46 PM
> To: Steven M. Bellovin
> Cc: Pekka Savola; Alain Durand; Bound, Jim; Sebastien Roy; 
> Mika Liljeberg; Ronald van der Pol; v6ops@ops.ietf.org; 
> jim.Paugh@Sun.COM; ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com
> Subject: Re: dual stack & IPv6 on by default 
> 
> 
> >There have been reports of problems with some Web browsers trying to
> >use only the v6 address.
> 
> 	this is due to the way mozilla is written.
> 	mozilla did:
> 		hp = gethostbyname2(host, AF_INET6);
> 		if (!hp)
> 			hp = gethostbyname(host);
> 	so mozilla tries to connect to IPv6/v4 dual stack 
> destination, it
> 	would try to connect to IPv6 only.  it has to be fixed by using
> 	getaddrinfo(3).
> 
> itojun
>