On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:52:47PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Hallo Release Team, > > I've read in the release goals: > >> RELEASE GOALS >> ============= >> >> * full IPv6 support >> Advocate: Martin Zobel-Helas > > and wrote to Martin Zobel-Helas who redirected me here. > > My experience with IPv6 in Debian is foremost that it's a pita. > > Debian enables IPv6 by default. > > * AAAA before A DNS lookup [...] > * Software that binds to the first socket found [...]
Both of those problems seem to be problems in specific pieces of software. I suggest you file bugs against those packages and tag them with the ipv6 tag. > * The cost of disabling IPv6 I don't think that should be needed, and the software behaving wrong should get fixed instead. > So before pushing IPv6 even further into Debian I ask you to consider > whether the foundation that is laid today is sane enough or whether it > should be improved with priority. I think the point of adding better ipv6 support is actually fixing those pieces of software that don't behave properly, in either an ipv4-only or ipv6-only world. They should be written that they should work with any protocol. > Please don't judge this memorandum based on the fact that the problem in my > specific case might sit in front of the keyboard, and instead please take > into account that a default instalation should *just* run in the most > common cases without the need to tweak - that is without the need to switch > off something as "exotic" as IPv6. I've never actually had a problem on ipv4-only hosts. It would be nice if you could describe your problems in more detail. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
