Hi, On Sat, Jan 13, 2007, Trent Lloyd wrote: > > - when built with --enable-legacy (as in the past), libnss-mdns will > > support A and AAAA requests but only over IPv4 > Yes however my point is to actually speak over IPv6 not just resolve AAAA > addresses.
Yes, but please note that this *when built with --enable-legacy*, which isn't the case since version 0.8-6.1 in Debian. > > - when built with --disable-legacy (as is the case now), libnss-mdns > > will forward the request to avahi which supports A and AAAA over both > > IPv4 and IPv6. > Avahi also has IPv6 disabled by default (I hope to change this upstream > at some point but it requires careful consideration and we may make some > API changes to make this 'easier'), also I would assume that > 'mdns4' would instruct avahi to only return IPv4 records (which is possible) > I will need to confirm this with lennart however I doubt that is > not the case. Ok, so your remark is relevant for avahi. Perhaps you can simply request that avahi be built with IPv6 by default in Debian via a new bug report against avahi? Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
