9.0-beta3 preferring ipv4 over ipv6 with
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES"
Thomas Steen Rasmussen
thomas at gibfest.dk
Thu Oct 13 22:31:30 UTC 2011
Hello list,
I just upgraded my home workstation to 9.0-beta3 amd64. It seems
like my web browsers are preferring ipv4 over ipv6 after the upgrade,
I tested Firefox and Opera. After digging into rc.conf(5) I found this bit:
If ``AUTO'' is specified, it attempts to read a file
/etc/ip6addrctl.conf first. If this file is found,
ip6addrctl(8) reads and installs it. If not found, a policy
is automatically set according to
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces variable; if the variable is set
to ``YES'' the IPv6-preferred one is used. Otherwise
IPv4-preferred.
The default value of ip6addrctl_enable and ip6addrctl_policy
are ``YES'' and ``AUTO'', respectively.
I already have ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
so ip6addrctl_policy _should_ be "ip6addrctl_policy" if I am reading
this correctly. But my browsers still prefer ipv4. Is this a bug, or
do the manpage need updating ?
Before the upgrade to 9 I was running 8-stable which preferred
ipv6 like I would expect.
Thank you in advance,
Thomas Steen Rasmussen
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