Package: libc6 Version: 2.1.3-10 Severity: normal This host is behind a firewall (WinProxy 2.2) and uses as a DNS server the firewall machine. The DNS servers does not support IPv6 name lookups, and as a result many program cannot lookup names, and numerical IPs have to be given: * apt-get * bitchx * irc * ssh It looks like these program try to do IPv6 name lookup first, even if the host is in /etc/hosts, and just wait forever to some reply from the server. The best solution to the problem is to make this behaviour configureable in /etc/host.conf so it would be possible to disable IPv6 name lookups, which for most people (using IPv4 only) are useless anyway. Since the default of modutils is disabling IPv6, it seem logical to me that IPv6 name lookup should be also disabled by default, at least until IPv6 is more widespread. -- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tsur4 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 Versions of packages libc6 depends on: ii ldso 1.9.11-9 The Linux dynamic linker, library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
