resolver issues: AAAA in ipv4 only environment

Hajimu UMEMOTO ume at mahoroba.org
Thu Feb 12 10:36:09 PST 2004


Hi,

>>>>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:33:33 +0100
>>>>> Guido van Rooij <guido at gvr.org> said:

guido> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:36:46AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> 
> 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.

guido> Do you have a URL where I can verify this? 
guido> I run Mozilla 1.6 but bit is not fixed there.

I was annoyed with that behavior.  But, it seems recent Mozilla
changed the behavior to don't do that.

Sincerely,

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