Subject: old name lookup breakage (getaddrinfo)
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/09/2000 09:08:13
changed cc: to tech-net.
>>So what technical problem are you trying avoid by having
>>an "IPv6-free system"?
>The current state of IPv6 at Stanford is such that last time
>anyone I know tried to turn on an IPv4-plus-IPv6 box, they could
>no longer resolve hostnames. (This was under OpenBSD, not NetBSD,
>but the KAME code in both platforms is very, very similar.)
Could you tell me more about the detail if it still persists?
When did you installed the particular system?
I think the particular problem was corrected long time ago
(cope gracefully with broken name server replies).
itojun