IPv6

[Matthew Flaschen]

Pastor JW wrote:
>>> couple weeks?  Yep!
>> I don't suppose you've actually filed a bug.  That would require
>> demonstrating a real problem with the implementation.
> 
> You know, because I did find it in my book later, I likely did file that bug 
> but it was of course the Mandriva distro.  It seems they actually did a bit 
> in their errata page later about it for 2008.0 I think it was.

I'm going to wait for an actual bug ID.

>> Lots of people think things are buggy without knowing the correct behavior.
>  
> I think it is because people expect things to work, not just decide to not 
> allow an inet connected computer to never connect to a needed URL.

Somehow I doubt the Linux IPv6 stack arbitrarily blocks IPv4
connections.  You were likely dealing with a problem in a server's IPv6
configuration.

Matt Flaschen