On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:28:38PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > When specifying a server that has both A and AAAA DNS entries, irssi > will only connect to the IPv4 address; the IPv6 address will only be > used if the ``-6'' flag is specified on the /server command. > > This is annoying when connecting from an IPv6-only network. > > I suggest that irssi should treat all the addresses of a server as > a group, and connect to whichever is reachable at a given time. The > same should be true when a connection dies and the server is > recontacted to allow for mobility between the IPv4 and IPv6 internets. > > You can test with > > irc.geeknode.org > > which is reachable using both IPv4 and IPv6.
It also does not prefer IPv6 over IPv4 by default. Instead you need to set resolve_prefer_ipv6 to on. That seems like a bug to me, too. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
