On 18.10.2012 23:21, Gustavo Luiz Duarte wrote: > Because IPv4 is much more prevalent at present, what means less > unnecessary traffic and a slightly better performance on most of the > cases.
Also way too often IPv6 is misconfigured and detecting this condition may be slow if the packets simply get dropped. > We can always change the default in the future (when IPv6 is more > prevalent) as such "preference" is just an optimization. > Also, I should soon have a patch to allow the user to configure this > lookup behavior if he/she wants it. > > > > On 10/16/2012 10:06 PM, Richard Laager wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 21:55 -0300, Gustavo Luiz Duarte wrote: >>> The default is DNS_OPTION_PREFER_IPV4. >> >> Why prefer IPv4 when most things prefer IPv6? >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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