tag 608061 + unreproducible thanks Your trace proves nothing, this is a tcpdump with no data inside, you give actually no way to reproduce the problem.
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:22:28 +0100 Felix Schueller <fs-linux_...@fschueller.eu> wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.11.2-7 > Severity: important > Tags: ipv6 > > When looking up an ip-address on an ipv6-enabled system, libc tries to > find an A and an AAAA-record. But, if some machine has only an A but > no AAAA record it returns host-not-found (see tcpdump below) > > So one can only connect (with e.g. iceweasel, w3m, telnet) to hosts > with both A and AAAA records (or server with cname-records) > > On an ipv4-only machine this can be "solved" by disabling ipv6 > completly, but on a dualstack-machine, i found no way to fix this. > > I found this on bug on two ways, an installing squeeze via d-i (the > ipv4 only machine) and via upgrading from lenny to squeeze I do have an ipv6 enabled machine here, and I can connect to ipv4-only hosts just fine with w3m or any other programs. Have you modified your /etc/gai.conf, are you using nscd with hosts caching ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madco...@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
