Re: ipv6 AAAA record lookup is making programs hang at startup.
[ CC'd to xemacs-beta since XEmacs 21.2-beta is one of the programs
that hangs at startup trying to look up ipv6 addresses ]
>>>> "Brian" == Brian Almeida
<bma(a)tux.org> writes:
Brian> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:52:09AM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> I wonder why it's doing a lookup for an ipv6 address when
there is no
> ipv6 implemented on this LAN. I have it aliases to "off" in the
> modules.conf.
Brian> Because ssh is not compiled with --with-ipv4-default.
Brian> --with-ipv4-default Use IPv4 by connections unless '-6'
specified
Brian> bma＠kalgan [~/debian/packages/ssh/openssh-2.2.0p1]: grep ipv4 debian/rules
Brian> bma＠kalgan [~/debian/packages/ssh/openssh-2.2.0p1]:
Brian> In the openssh diff.gz it seems like the ssh maintainer is trying to force
Brian> IPV4_DEFAULT in the defines, but I know this has bitten at least one other
Brian> person I know of...I don't know why the ssh maint is just not using the
Brian> configure option.
Ah, Ok. Perhaps that will fix `ssh'. What about XEmacs-21.2-beta, I
wonder? What does `ssh' do that keeps it from trying to look up an
ipv6 address via DNS?
In the meantime, the workaround is to place entries in /etc/hosts for
2002:... ipv6-in-4 addresses for localhost.mydomain.net as well as
myhostname.mydomain.net.