Subject: Re: Mozilla and IPv6
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Mario Kemper <magick@zhadum.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/06/2001 18:37:40
Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > Possible bug in Mozilla with IPv6:
> > It tries to resolves a DNS name. It gets an IPv6 address, tries to connect to
> > it, it fails because I don't have IPv6 connectivity, and then it does not
> > try with an IPv4 address.
> >
> > I cannot connect to www.netbsd.org anymore because of this problem.
> >
> > Is it a config problem, or should it be fixed in Mozilla?
>
> As itojun outlined the other day somewhere, Mozilla does a very bad job at
> falling back to other addresses. That should be fixed.
>
itojun asked me to report this bug to mozilla a long time ago. You can view
the progress at bugzilla.mozilla.org. My bug id was 66872 but recently it got
superceded by 86917. Afaik nothing has changed yet.
taya@netbsd.org on the notification list, so maybe he knows a bit more.
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Mario Kemper
magick@bundy.zhadum.de