resolver issues: AAAA in ipv4 only environment

[Hajimu UMEMOTO]

Hi,

>>>>> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:30:39 +0100
>>>>> Guido van Rooij <guido at gvr.org> said:

guido> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:01:02AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> 
> 5-CURRENT has destnation address selection.  You can see A before AAAA
> by putting following rule into your /etc/ip6addrctl.conf:
> 
> add ::1/128		50	0
> add ::ffff:0:0/96	40	1
> add ::/0		30	2
> add 2002::/16		20	3
> add ::/96		10	4

guido> that still doesn't seem to help. E.g. mozilla hangs a while when I
guido> go to www.apcc.com. Host does the same. Reaosn: it seems to await
guido> all queries...

Ah, Mozilla doesn't call getaddrinfo() but gtipnodebyname() twice for
AAAA and A.
Recent Mozilla does AAAA query only if your interface has IPv6 global
address, and does A query only if your interface has IPv4 address when
you invoke Mozilla.

Sincerely,

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