In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
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>On 9/15/07, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Barrett Lyon wrote:
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>> Of course when there is only a A or AAAA only that protocol will be
>> used. All applications are supposed to use getaddrinfo() which sorts
>> these addresses per the above specification, the app should then
>> connect() to them in order, fail/timeout and try the next one till it
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>Since when is a timeout on the Internet ok? Haven't we moved beyond
>that?
You mean to say you get 100% connectivity with IPv4?
> This is a controllable timeout. We don't have to do it, which is
> the point. What's the right way to do this?
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> Thank you, and thank you Barret for starting the thread. :-)
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>-M<
I've been running dual stacked for 5 years with a trans
pacific tunnel to HE (10 hops). While there have been the
occasional glitch I don't see much difference between IPv4
and IPv6.
Work has also been running dual stacked. I very rarely fall
back to IPv4, and given my usage patterns I do notice when
IPv6 connectivity fails.
Looping through the addresses as returned by getaddrinfo is
a reasonable strategy.
Mark
