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

Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-26 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Searching the archives of this list for "IPv6" I found I was not the only one with problems like "local domains always resolved through dialup interface", "unable to disable IPv6 for some reason", "DNS madness on Woody", and other problems with "local address lookup". With the help of the IPv