IPv4 support disabled by default in 1.4.2p5, still applet crashes

[Panagiotis Astithas]

On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:21, Markus D. wrote:
> Running some applets or applications which use network resources, I get the
> following message:
>
> --- begin ---
> I/O exception while reading: IPv4 mapped addresses usage is turned off. 
> Set net.inet6.ip6.v6only=0 or use '-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true' to
> disable java IPv6 supportI/O exception while reading: IPv4 mapped addresses
> usage is turned off.  Set net.inet6.ip6.v6only=0 or use
> '-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true' to disable java IPv6 support.
> --- end ---
>
> This prevents also applets from running (but there is no warning).

This happens only in -current. In -stable there still is 
net.inet6.ip6.v6only=0. Perhaps there should be a mention of this in 
pkg_message?

Regards,
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece