Mike Makonnen wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 14:16, Peter Haight wrote: > > Hmm. Looking at the FreeBSD resolver code, it doesn't look like there is > > some convenient way to do this. Maybe something like, try the AAAA lookup, > > but if we don't get any reply in a short timeout, try an A lookup. If we get > > a reply to that, then log the site as probably not conforming to the RFC. > > In mozilla's case, it's not the FreeBSD resolver that's trying ipv6 and > then ipv4. Mozilla does it explicitly by calling gethostbyname2 first > with AF_INET6, and if that fails with AF_INET. You could just patch it > to not make the first gethostbyname2 call. From a quick browse of the > source from mozilla.org it's src/misc/prnetdb.c around line # 579 or > thereabouts.
They are trying to be good network citizens by supporting IPv6. Patching the code so that it no longer supports IPv6, to work around a DNS server that improperly supports DNS... doesn't seem to be the right direction. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
