I tried it, just modifying /usr/sbin/ddclient. It works now. I don't have any Perl programming experience; there's got to be a more idiomatic way than initializing it to 0 and then conditionally assigning 1.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016, 8:41 PM Torsten Landschoff <tors...@landschoff.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On 07/25/2016 03:16 AM, micror...@gmail.com wrote: > > Setting 'usev6' for a host in ddclient.conf poisons subsequent hosts. > > > > http://sources.debian.net/src/ddclient/3.8.3-1.1/ddclient/#L867 > > good catch! > > > This part of the code turns on the $ivp6 flag and leaves it on for the > > rest of the hosts associated with the same service. It's not until it > > gets to the next service that it resets $ipv6 on line 860. > > > > I have an IPv4 hostname that comes alphabetically after an IPv6 > > hostname, so could you move the `my $ipv6 = 0` down to, say, line 866? > > that sounds like you are able to change that locally on your system. If > you did, did that fix the problem? > If not, I can build an experimental package for you to evaluate that > change. Unfortunately, I don't currently have a testing system with iPv6 > connectivity... > > Greetings, Torsten > >
