Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 09:21:37AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > However, opinons are divided, and Wichert Akkerman, at least, > now thinks it is a bug. The question is where the bug really is: > in all the applications that are now in the process of being > "upgraded" to ipv6 (as telnetd and

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-27 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > No, this is a bug. Or at least, the fact that you can't > turn IPv6 lookups *off*, even if you're running an IPv4-only > host, is a bug. There is absolutely no point in performing > an extra DNS lookup when you can't even use the result. > Sinc

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:38:50PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >Are you going to file a bug on this? > > There doesn't seem to be much point in this. When I asked about > this on debian-ipv6 (the developers list) no less an authority > than Wichert Akkerman said that it was "a feature",

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-27 Thread Frans Pop
[snip] > > Are you going to file a bug on this? > > There doesn't seem to be much point in this. When I asked about > this on debian-ipv6 (the developers list) no less an authority > than Wichert Akkerman said that it was "a feature", not a bug. > > I assume he meant it ironically, so the problem

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-27 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Frans Pop wrote: > Congratulations and thanks! > This solves my thread "EXIM - DNS problem" as well. I hadn't seen that thread (am not on the list, only read the archive on debian.org), but it is interesting, because you have a nameserver and IPv6 enabled, both of which I don't have. And still

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-27 Thread Frans Pop
Congratulations and thanks! This solves my thread "EXIM - DNS problem" as well. I just added the extra lines for my hosts, and bingo, my nameserver doesn't get bothered by unqualified names anymore! Are you going to file a bug on this? Frans Pop On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:14, Jan Willem

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-27 Thread Frans Pop
Congratulations and thanks! This solves my thread "EXIM - DNS problem" as well. I just added the extra lines for my hosts, and bingo, my nameserver doesn't get bothered by unqualified names anymore! Are you going to file a bug on this? Frans Pop On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:14, Jan Willem

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: [snip] > > So if your /etc/hosts is, for instance: > ,,, > > 192.168.1.3 venus.my.homevenus > > > > Then at the end of the file you have to add > ... > > :::192.168.

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: ... > With the help of the IPv6 developer list I finally found the real > solution: Woody versions of some Debian packages, like telnet, > and, it seems, exim, *require* IPv6 addresses for your local > machines (including local