Thanks for your help. I can't install IO::Socket::INET6.
The same thing happened on my (newer) Debian system. If you use IPv6, this
may be serious
and we'll need to find out why. If, like me, you only use IPv4, just
'force install IO::Socket::INET6'.
I think the big problem is it looks like you are still running Woody. To get
a fairly recent version of Net::DNS will necessitate a newer version of Perl
and libc6 etc. etc... IPV6 may require a kernel upgrade also. I'm just not
sure you will find any joy until you do a dist-upgrade. I could be wrong.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
I also could not install IO::Socket::INET6 from CPAN on my Sarge box, but
this worked:
apt-get install libio-socket-inet6-perl
I don't actually know if the program works however. I have not understood
exactly what the deal is with IPV6 on Sarge 3.1. I think it works if you
install 3.1 from scratch, but when you come to it from an upgrade path I'm
not certain whether it works or not. I think I remember it being a last
minute thing just prior to Sarge going stable (or maybe they just fixed some
programs that tried to use IPv6 so they wouldn't use it). One example would
be on a fresh install you will have IPV6 related info in /etc/hosts that may
be missing on earlier versions (but I don't know how significant this is).
Here is an example:
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Even then I'm not sure IPV6 is functioning. I use DCC and if I try to turn
IPv6 on with:
cdcc 'IPv6 on'
it replies with:
IPv6 switch not changed.
and running 'cdcc info' confirms that IPv6 is still not in use.
In Postfix, if I set:
inet_protocols = ipv6
I get:
postfix: fatal: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address family not
supported by protocol
It would be nice if someone actually could tell us what the deal is with
IPv6 on Debian Sarge.
Just an unrelated note: my experience has shown that when installing
packages from CPAN (same as installing from source), Perl finds those
modules in the path before it will find the Debian version.
Gary V
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