On Sunday 10 May 2009 16:59:36 Davíð Steinn Geirsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am in the migrating my services to IPv6. I have pretty much everything
> moved except for bacula.
>
> I have convinced the fd, sd and director to listen on :: and am able to
> connect to them through their v6 addresses. However, it seems that when
> a host has both A and AAAA records in DNS, bacula prefers the A record
> and hence falls back to IPv4.
>
> I found one message to bacula-user from january 2008 at
> http://marc.info/?l=bacula-users&m=119945566132053&w=2 that confirms
> this behavior. There was no discussion as to why this was so.

Yes, there was a discussion about it, but perhaps it is in the bug report that 
is open on that subject (I think it is 1029).

>
> In my opinion this behavior is broken and prevents proper migration.
> However, I assume there must be some reason why this behavior was
> chosen, so I am interested in hearing it's rationale.

Yes, I think it is an undesirable behavior.  I suspect that the person who 
implemented it either wanted it that way or didn't realize it is not ideal.  
Unfortunately, I don't have IPv6 running here or the time to work on it, so 
it is an item that has been pending for a long time.

>
> I intend to patch this behavior and deploy the patched versions to my
> hosts. If there is consensus that this behavior is undesireable, or no
> reply is received, I will submit the patch here for discussion.

Yes, I definitely would like to resolve this problem (and close the bug 
report).  If you have a test environment as well as the time and energy, we 
would really appreciate a patch -- IPv6 is going to become important in the 
next couple of years.

Regards,

Kern


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