Subject: Re: Mozilla and IPv6
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/06/2001 12:35:17
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Possible bug in Mozilla with IPv6:
> It tries to resolves a DNS name. It gets an IPv6 address, tries to connect to 
> it, it fails because I don't have IPv6 connectivity, and then it does not
> try with an IPv4 address.
> 
> I cannot connect to www.netbsd.org anymore because of this problem. 
> 
> Is it a config problem, or should it be fixed in Mozilla?

As itojun outlined the other day somewhere, Mozilla does a very bad job at
falling back to other addresses. That should be fixed.


 - Hubert

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