> * AAAA before A DNS lookup
> (it might be that the implementation of RFC3484 as described
> in the libc6 change "2006-05-18 David Woodhouse" as found in
> /usr/share/doc/libc6/changelog.gz might have solved this particular
> problem)
Partly. It fixed the issue of clients trying to connect to IPv6
addresses first on hosts with no IPv4. It didn't fix the issue of
waiting for AAAA records -- the IPv6 addresses are still returned to
the client, albeit at the end of the list.
> Then there's software that binds to the first port it gets and is
> difficult to teach not to do so. [2]
Sorry, but I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. The reference
you give is speaking about a different issue.
> I would guess that less than one in a thousand users have direct access
> to an IPv6 network. Getting connectivity to IPv6 is still non-trivial
> (based on my own personal experience).
$ sudo apt-get install miredo
$ sleep 10
$ ping6 -c5 www.kame.net
Juliusz
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