On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 11:19:36AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2026-09-08 08:34:37 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > That sounds like faulty applications, which could or should be fixed. > > or the C library? > > > Vincent gave the example of wget, but I can't reproduce his problem; > > I don't _think_ wget is faulty. > > Other applications are also affected by the issue, but in different > and surprising ways:
[...] all of them are consistent with the hypothesis that the application is getting both an IPv6 (AAAA record) and IPv4 (A) address when trying to resolve the name, and for some reason first try the IPv6 (and for some other don't fall back to IPv4 on failure). You said you already edited your /etc/gai.conf? Cheers -- t
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