On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:23:54AM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:57:17PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:14:02PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > > Hello all, 
> > > 
> > > My NetBSD 1.5 box runs Gnome 1.4 quite happily, and I'm starting to play
> > > with Mozilla 0.9.  On my PII 233, it's no speed demon, but it has small
> > > advantages.  (My favorite is the one I missed from other flavors of
> > > Netscape: Ctrl-+ and ctrl-- change the font size.)
> > > 
> > > It a distinct disadvantage, though, and I'm not sure what to do or whom
> > > to tell.  When connecting to www.netbsd.org, I get a message box, 
> > > 
> > > "The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.netbsd.org."
> > 
> > Could be the known bug of mozilla with IPv6.
> > Try www4.netbsd.org instead (www.netbsd.org has both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses,
> > but mozilla doesn't properly fall back to ipv4 when ipv6 fails)
> 
> Thanks, Manuel.  Now I know what to do, and am more confused
> than ever. (!)
> 
> What I find peculiar is that I didn't set up IPv6, and I'm
> sitting behind a 1.42 firewall.  I'm not up to speed on IPv6, so
> my network isn't either (no surprise).  
> 
> I take it that www.netbsd.org has an AAAA record, and that each
> application has its own IPv4 fallback implementation.  Shouldn't
> the app determine if indeed there is any IPv6 support locally
> before attempting to reach a host?  "Falling back" on every name
> resolution would be unnecessarily expensive. 

Do you have recompiled a kernel without 'options INET6' ? If not, your
machine has at last one IPv6 address, the link-local address, and as
such supports IPv6

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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